Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere

★★½

M. 119 minutes

Some say all Hollywood music biopics are the same, but it’s not entirely so. A stronger example of the genre than most, James Mangold’s recent A Complete Unknown culminated in the famous 1966 concert where Bob Dylan (Timothee Chalamet) outraged his fans by going electric. In Scott Cooper’s more conventional Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere , the trajectory is reversed.

In 1981, Bruce Springsteen (Jeremy Allen White) is ideally placed to consolidate his status as the biggest rock act in the US (or the world). Instead, he retreats to his bedroom in his home town of Colts Neck, New Jersey, where he uses a four-track cassette recorder to create what one of his associates disgustedly calls a “folk album”.

It’s the age-old stor

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