Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere

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"Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere is an overly safe picture, which fulfills the role of educating a lay viewer on the origin of Nebraska and provides musically interesting moments.

However, by trading psychological complexity for the predictability of a fictional romance and shallowly treating its heavier themes, it ultimately reveals itself to be a lost opportunity to transcend the limitations of the biopic genre and its own premise.

Its true power lies in reminding us that the deepest art often comes from the courageous confrontation with internal darkness."

Rating: C+

a heartfelt but uneven portrait of springsteens creative process. it captures the bosss spirit and solitude, but feels more like a reverent museum piece than a living, breathing story. great music, strong interviews, but the spark fades before the credits roll

Of all of the recent spate of rock star biopics, I think this is probably the weakest Ive seen. Thats not because Jeremy Allen White doesnt convince. For the most part he does. Its that they have picked a part of his life that showcases this mans search for his own version of emotional, musical and acoustic perfection, and its not really that interesting. Neither, I found, was the somewhat shallow depiction of his commitment-phobe relationship with Faye (Odessa Young). Supported creatively and emotionally by Jon Landau (Jeremy Strong), that element at least gives us some sense of the pressures on this man to deliver, production line style, hit after hit for their record label masters and for a public with a voracious appetite for new conten...