Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere

Directed by Scott Cooper (PG-13)

★★

The new Bruce Springsteen movie “isn’t just another assembly-line biopic—and that’s a blessing,” said in Variety . But while the brief chapter of the rock star’s life that the film focuses on is “as good as any,” it’s also “a fairly dull story.” In the early 1980s, as Springsteen reached his early 30s, he was just a short step away from megastardom when he instead began recording the dark, radically stripped-down tracks that became the album Nebraska . We see him return home to New Jersey—but “looking for what exactly?” You have to go in already treasuring the 1982 album to find the story fully rewarding.

Jeremy Allen White, in the lead role, “manages to create an ineffably convincing Springsteen ,” said i

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