It can’t be easy to make a movie about the creation of a whispery, shivery work of art like Bruce Springsteen ’s 1982 Nebraska, an album whose title track was inspired by the real-life late-1950s killing spree of 19-year-old Charlie Starkweather and his 14-year-old girlfriend Caril Ann Fugate. Nor can it be easy to make a movie about an artist suffering from depression, as Springsteen was when he made the album. How do you present overwhelming feelings of despair, or the sense of just feeling wholly lost, on a movie screen in a dynamic way? Maybe that’s why Scott Cooper’s Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere —starring Jeremy Allen White —feels a little ghostly itself, a movie half-inhabited by a strain of melancholy you can’t quite find the word for.

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