Friday’s openings: Add ‘Amy’ to the list

I laid out the week's mainstream movie openings below. The Magic Lantern, meanwhile, is opening one of the more intriguing, and better-reviewed, films ever to play the art-house theater. "Amy," Asif Kapadia's documentary about the late British singer Any Winehouse, owns a 97 percent approval rating on the movie-review website Rottentomatoes.com.

If you never heard of Winehouse, well … just know that she had loads of talent, was a critical darling, led a troubled life and — like many tortured talents before her — died young. In 2011 at age 27.

Some of the more impressive comments about the movie follow:

Ann Hornaday, Washington Post: "In Kapadia's assured and careful hands, the film becomes less a portrait of a tragic artist, whose downward spiral was exacerbated by opportunistic family members and colleagues, than a discomfiting mirror held up to her audience."

Jordan Levin, Miami Herald: "You don't need to be a fan of British singer Amy Winehouse to be moved by the documentary 'Amy,' a devastating examination of the deadly effect that celebrity culture, media and drugs can have on artists."

David Edelsein, New York Magazine: "Amy is alternately thrilling and devastating, throwing you back and forth until the devastation takes over and you spend the last hour watching the most supernaturally gifted vocalist of her generation chase and find oblivion.