Obviously grade-A direction, writing, acting (not just Jeremy Allen White as Bruce but the great Jeremy Strong as Jon Landau, his manager) and everything else.
Please, please debut this biopic at the 2025 Venice Film Festival.
Why isn’t it just called Deliver Me From Nowhere? Why did they have to fecking call it Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere? You know the answer. You know why they added his last name to the title. Because a significant portion of American moviegoers are too ignorant, and because they’d be alienated by a title that sounds a bi despairing and melancholy.
Deliver Me From Nowhere is the coolest sounding movie title since Zero Dark Thirty. But the 20th Century marketers have killed it…they’ve killed the poetic vibe.