When Bob Dylan’s Timothée Chalamet-starring biopic A Complete Unknown arrived to universal acclaim last year, it played like a breath of fresh and honest air amongst the glut of recent music stories given the glitzy, Hollywood treatment. The difference, you suspected, was twofold: Dylan had already sold his catalogue to Sony Music, meaning there was far less of a financial carrot involved in presenting only his best side, and regardless, the famously crotchety legend had never really cared about giving the people what they want anyway.
The same, alas, cannot be said for Deliver Me From Nowhere: Bruce Springsteen’s step into the saturated biopic market, that details the New Jersey hero’s troubled period spent making acoustic left-turn album Nebraska in the early ‘80s. It’s not that The Boss – played stoically by The Bear’s Jeremy Allen White – always comes across like a solid gold guy. His on-off relationship with romantic interest Faye (newcomer Odessa Young, who gives the role a convincing air of frustration) is far from love’s young dream, even if they spend half their scenes skipping, romcom-style, around a fairground.
