Music biopics are notoriously tricky to pull off because the stories of well-known musicians/bands tend to follow similar trajectories. Some — like the Amy Winehouse film Back to Black — have followed ...

Many people have tried to be like Bruce Springsteen. Some of them have even played The Stone Pony. As star of the new movie “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere,” he had to master Springsteen’s ...

There was no shortage of major global events for the weekly news magazines to cover in October 1975. The last smallpox patient on Earth was treated in Bangladesh; Francisco Franco’s dictatorship came ...

Did an adolescent Bruce really have to walk into bars and collect his father, at the urging of his mother? Yes. The movie begins in the 1950s with Springsteen’s mother, Adele (Gabby Hoffman), driving ...

Bruce Springsteen at The Stone Pony in Asbury Park, N.J. on Sept. 3, 2025. Story No one notices Bruce Springsteen. He makes no effort to hide—black T-shirt, blue jeans, Wayfarer sunglasses, honky-tonk ...

Bruce Springsteen! What more does one have to say? Director and screenwriter Scott Cooper has a lot more to say in the current movie “Springsteen: Delivery Me From Nowhere.” It’s not a Springsteen ...

In 1982, Todd Rundgren released an album called “The Ever Popular Tortured Artist Effect.” In 2024, Taylor Swift released an album — albums — called “The Tortured Poets Department.” Bruce Springsteen ...

The most unfortunate thing about “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere” is that the film, fundamentally, does everything right. The plot is trackable, director Scott Cooper doesn’t make any ...

Jeremy Allen White plays the singer-songwriter in an affecting drama about the making of his 1982 album “Nebraska” when he slipped into a terrible darkness. By Manohla Dargis When you purchase a ...