Most people first got to know Amy Winehouse well after her alcohol and drug abuse led to her biggest hit, “Rehab” — a song that subsequently made the peerless jazz vocalist a household name, and a tabloid fixture up to her death in 2011. This deeply affecting and incredibly well-crafted doc paints a much more complex portrait of Winehouse, starting well before her sudden onslaught of fame. As director Asif Kapadia (Senna) plays dozens of audio interviews with Winehouse’s friends and family over archival video from Winehouse’s life, we come to see her as a charming, funny, profoundly talented, and deeply flawed young woman who was failed by far too many of those closest to her. —Adam B. Vary
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