movie review

SPRINGSTEEN: DELIVER ME FROM NOWHERE

Running time: 120 minutes. Not yet rated. In theaters Oct. 24.

The Bruce Springsteen movie “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere” has a lot in common with last year’s Bob Dylan biopic “ A Complete Unknown .”

Each eschews a sprawling birth-to-present-day storyline and instead focuses on a consequential chapter in the life of one of the greatest American musicians.

Dylan’s centered on him controversially leaving traditional folk behind in favor of electric.

Springsteen’s biopic, which had its local premiere Sunday at the New York Film Festival and hits theaters Oct. 24, flips that. It shows The Boss riskily recording an acoustic folk album, “Nebraska,” a dark and personal follow-up to his rocking “The River” that is today regarded as

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