Key Insights
- Positive Reviews: The film Bruce Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere received overwhelmingly positive feedback at its Telluride Film Festival premiere.
- Unique Approach: It takes a distinctive approach to the biopic genre, focusing on a specific moment in Springsteen’s life.
- Strong Performances: Jeremy Allen White and Jeremy Strong deliver standout performances that are being praised by critics.
- Anticipated Release: The film is highly anticipated and is expected to be a contender during the upcoming awards season.
There’s always pressure when you’re making a biopic about a living subject, but fortunately for fans of The Boss, it looks like Bruce Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere is born to run, taking in hugely positive reviews out of its debut at the Telluride Film Festival.
Based on the first screening, Deliver Me from Nowhere proved all night that it has taken a unique approach to the biopic. We knew it centered on a specific moment in Springsteen’s life, but it has apparently found a tone that finds an intimacy and truth in ways that we have practically been trained to expect in such movies. Check out some of the first reactions to Deliver Me from Nowhere below:
Expectedly, Jeremy Allen White is earning huge praise for playing Bruce Springsteen; we also evidently have another brilliant turn from Jeremy Strong as Bruce’s longtime manager, Jon Landau, possibly doing what he did in The Apprentice as Roy Cohn – at times outshining the stellar lead performance. No doubt we can expect to see both White and Strong as Oscar contenders in their respective categories.
Well ahead of its Telluride premiere – which The Boss himself was in attendance for – Bruce praised the cast of Deliver Me from Nowhere, citing not only White and Strong but also the great Stephen Graham, who plays his father.
While many reviews are saying that it stands out in the world of biopics, other initial reactions to Deliver Me from Nowhere do point out that it pretty much can’t help but avoid some trappings, which I’ll chalk up to being collateral damage. As such, Bruce Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere is still goin’ down as one of my most-anticipated films of 2025.
Deliver Me from Nowhere tracks The Boss as he writes and records 1982’s Nebraska, one of his most important albums, which he completed himself using a four-track recorder in his bedroom. It remains one of the truly stark albums in music history, channeling themes of murder, alienation and more that draws from Terrence Malick’s Badlands, Gothic literature and American history.
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