Review: 'Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere' Loses the Boss

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I haven’t been this disappointed in a movie in a long time. Deliver Me from Nowhere isn’t terrible, exactly —it’s not even the performances (though I have some issues with Jeremy Allen White’s Springsteen). The problem is that the movie takes a period of Bruce’s life that isn’t cinematic and tries to make it cinematic anyway. It’s an introspective story about an introspective artist, and introspection just isn’t much to look at.

At this point, the musician biopic formula is as worn out as a vinyl record, and I respect that Scott Cooper at least tries to avoid it. But there’s a reason that formula works—and Deliver Me from Nowhere is a case study in why it does. This isn’t a rise-

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