November 14-17 | Friday-Monday | 2 hours | Rated R |
Jeremy Allen White (The Bear) hits every note perfectly imperfect as Bruce Springsteen in this biopic more interested in the quiet between the notes than the notes themselves. Set with Bruce on the precipice of superstardom, between The River and Born to Run, it focuses on the creation of Nebraska, and the trials and travails of Bruce’s personal and professional life at the time. Just like the album, it’s filled with raw, unvarnished emotion, memories of growing up in a blue-collar family that struggled with money and showing emotion. This isn’t about Bruce at the highest heights of his fame, but at the rawest depths of his uncertainty. And White shows you every moment of it beautifully.
“White is quietly effective as Bruce, having perfected the singer’s trademark honeycomb rasp.” -Stephanie Zacharek, TIME Magazine
“At its best, the film gives us a sincere look at the creative process and reveals it to be a sad, scary, at times uncontrollable and destructive thing. Just for that alone, it’s worth seeing.” -Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture
“Cooper’s deeply introspective film is a quiet beauty that understands and has compassion for how creativity and depression so often can be inexorably linked and produce such iconic works.” -Randy Myers, San Jose Mercury News
“Driven by a boss Jeremy Allen White performance, Scott Cooper’s Bruce Springsteen biopic — just like its subject — finds its true voice once it stops trying to play the hits.” -Jordan King, Empire Magazine
“Cooper’s not interested in the Springsteen story, but rather a Springsteen story, and he delivers by making “Nowhere” a small film about a big subject.” -Adam Graham, Detroit News
“The great surprise of “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere” — a solid, very likable, very affecting drama about an anguished period in the life of the young Bruce Springsteen — is that it doesn’t shy away from soul-deep pain.” -Manohla Dargis, New York Times
Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere opens at The Clyde on Friday, November 14, and plays Friday, Saturday, & Monday at 7:30 and Sunday at 2pm.
