Springsteen Biopic Divides Critics

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, written and directed by Scott Cooper, is an intimate biopic dramatizing the making of Bruce Springsteen’s stripped-down 1982 album Nebraska and opened in theaters on Oct. 24, 2025. The film is adapted from Warren Zanes’s book Deliver Me from Nowhere and stars Jeremy Allen White as Springsteen, who performs the vocals on camera, while Jeremy Strong plays manager Jon Landau. Critics have been mixed, with many praising Cooper’s restraint and the film’s quiet, psychological portrait of Springsteen while others say it sometimes drags or leans on familiar rock‑biopic conventions. Warren Zanes and Springsteen helped shape the movie’s locations, with Springsteen personally guiding Cooper and crew around his New Jersey haunts. The movie emphasizes New Jersey ties on and off screen, including local casting and a soundtrack that features Springsteen’s songs.