Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere Is Clumsy And Obvious, But It Gets The Job Done

About halfway through Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, writer/director Scott Cooper’s noisy new Bruce Springsteen biopic, I got restless. My seat was uncomfortable. I was hungry. I could see just about every music-biopic cliché coming, and I knew I’d have to get through all of them before I could stretch my legs and find an open burrito spot. But then the picture arrived at the scene where Jeremy Allen White’s Bruce Springsteen records “Born In The USA” with the full E Street Band behind him. The film had already shown Springsteen recording that song as a moody acoustic demo. But when those drum-hits and that triumphant keyboard riff came in, the song was transformed, and so was the theater. I forgot all about cramped seats and burritos, and I was transfixed.

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