What more can be said about rock icon Bruce Springsteen?

Plenty if you see the movie, “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere.”

The film focuses on a microcosm in Springsteen’s music career, that of the years 1981 and 1982 when Springsteen recorded the album, “Nebraska,” a collection of folk music style ballads.

Springsteen recorded the songs for “Nebraska,” strumming an acoustic guitar and singing in a makeshift studio set up in the bedroom of his house in Colts Neck, N.J.

The solo album, with Springsteen on vocals, backing himself on acoustic guitar and harmonica, was a stark departure from the pounding drums, dense guitars and keyboards, saxophone-fueled arena rock sound of Springsteen albums and concerts.

Springsteen, 76, nicknamed “The Boss,” is one of the best-selling music artists ever with 150 million records sold as of 2021. He’s known for his blue-collar themed songs and marathon concerts, often lasting four hours.

“Nebraska” (1982) wasn’t the album that the executives at Springsteen’s label, Columbia Records, were looking for, following the critically-acclaimed double album, “The River” (1980), which sold 6.3 million copies.

“Nebraska” sold 1.4 million albums.

Springsteen’s next album, “Born in the U.S.A.” (1984), sold 30 million copies and took his rock music career to new heights.

“Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere” is about the yin and yang, the push and pull, the sturm and drang, of truthful creativity and commercial success in the pop-rock music world and in Springsteen’s career.

The movie is based on the 2023 book “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere: The Making of Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska” by Warren Zanes, as well as Springsteen’s 2016 autobiography, “Born to Run.”

Springsteen’s commercial breakthrough was the song and the album, “Born to Run” (1975), selling 7.9 million records. The album followed his debut album, “Greetings from Asbury Park, New Jersey” (1973), which sold 2 million copies, and “The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle” (1973), which sold 2 million records.

“Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere” isn’t so much a typical music star biopic as it is a psychological study of Springsteen during a time in his life and his songwriting when he was searching, trying to be true to his music roots while also giving his fans and, perhaps, more importantly, his record label execs what they wanted, namely, hit records that could rattle the stadiums, fill the seats with fans and put money in the bank of the record label.

The portrayal of a singer-songwriter at a commercial, creative and personal crossroads in “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere” is greatly enhanced by the transformational performance of Jeremy Allen White as Bruce Springsteen.

White (three-time Primetime Emmy Awards nominee and two-time Primetime Emmy Awards winner, actor, “The Bear,” 2024, 2023; TV’s “Shameless,” 2011-21) becomes Bruce Springsteen before our very eyes in “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere.”

White’s performance leaves no doubt in the movie-goer’s mind that he is Bruce Springsteen, as he sings in arena rock scenes, performing the hits “Born to Run” and “Born in the U.S.A.,” with the E Street Band; rocks out with a sweaty bar band in the Stone Pony in Asbury Park, N.J., or quietly strums his guitar and jots down lyrics on a notepad as he writes a song in his bedroom.

White’s scenes with Jeremy Strong (Jon Landau, Springsteen’s producer) and Paul Walter Hauser (Mike Batlan, his recording engineer); Stephen Graham (Douglas, his father) and Gaby Hoffmann (Adele, his mother) and Odessa Young (Faye, a composite character girlfriend) have the ring of veracity.

Matthew Anthony Pellicano is excellent portraying Springsteen as a boy. He’s seen in black and white memory flashbacks of the young Springsteen, which are effectively inserted throughout the color film.

“Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere” is directed by Scott Cooper (director, “The Pale Blue Eye,” 2022; “Antlers,” 2021; “Hostiles,” 2017; “Black Mass,” 2015; “Out of The Furnace,” 2013;: “Crazy Heart,” 2009), from a screenplay he co-wrote with .Warren Zanes. Cinematographer is Masanobu Takayanagi (Director of Photography, “Silver Linings Playbook,” 2012). Production Designer is Stefania Cella (“Morbius,” 2022).

“Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere” is a classic in the biopic genre and a welcome addition to comprehending the genius that is Bruce Springsteen.

“Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere” will be of chief interest to fans of Bruce Springsteen, fans of Jeremy Allen White, fans of music biopics and fans of rock music.

“Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere,” MPA Rated PG-13 (Parents strongly cautioned, meaning some material may be inappropriate for children under 13) for thematic material, some sexuality, strong language, and smoking; Genre: Docudrama, Biography, Music; Run time: 1 hour, 59 minutes. Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures.

Credit Readers Anonymous: “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere” was filmed October 2024 to January 2025 in Asbury Park, Rockaway, and West Orange, N.J., and New York City, and Los Angeles. The film includes scenes from “Badlands” (1972), starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Space, and “The Night of the Hunter”1955), starring Robert Mitchum and Shelley Winters.

At The Movies: “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere” was seen in the Dolby Cinema at AMC, AMC Center Valley 16.

Theatrical Movies Domestic Weekend Box Office, Oct. 31 - Nov. 2: “Black Phone 2” regained its No. 1 slot, moving up two places, $8.3 million in 3,305 theaters, $61.7 million, three weeks.

2. “Regretting You” stayed in place, $7.8 million in 3,425 theaters, $27.2 million, two weeks. 3. “Chainsaw Man - The Movie: Reze Arc” dropped two places from its one-week run at No. 1 with $6.2 million in 3,003 theaters, $30.9 million, two weeks. 4. “KPop Demon Hunters,” $5.3 million in 2,890 theaters, $24.3 million, 11 weeks. 5. “Bugonia” moved up eight places, $5 million in 2,043 theaters, $6 million, two weeks. 6. “Back to the Future - 40th anniversary re-release,” $4.9 million in 2,290 theaters. 7. “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere,” dropped three places, with $3.7 million in 3,460 theaters, $16.2 million, two weeks. 8. “Tron: Ares” dropped three places, $3 million in 2,575 theaters, $68.1 million, four weeks. 9. “Stitch Head,” $2 million in 2,162 theaters, $2.4 million since Oct. 29 opening. 10. “Good Fortune” dropped four places, $1.4 million in 2,150 theaters, $14.6 million, three weeks

Movie box office information from Box Office Mojo as of Nov. 2 is subject to change.

Unreel, Nov. 7:

“Nuremberg,” MPA rated PG-13; 2 hours, 28 minutes. James Vanderbilt, in his feature movie directorial debut, directs Russell Crowe (Oscar winner, actor, “Gladiator,” 2001) as Hermann Göring, Hitler’s aide, in the Biography, Drama, Legal Thriller.

Also starring ls Rami Malek (Oscar winner, actor, “Bohemian Rhapsody,” 2019) as Douglas Kelley, a psychiatrist who evaluates Nazi leaders, including Göring, prior to the Nuremberg trials.

Douglas Kelley wrote the book “22 Cells in Nuremberg” about his interactions with Nuremberg trial persons. In the final chapter, Kelley conjectures how the events of pre-WW II Germany could occur in modern-day.

The cast of “Nuremberg” includes Michael Shannon (two-time Oscar nominee, supporting actor, “Nocturnal Animals,” 2017; “Revolutionary Road,” 2009); Richard E. Grant (Oscar nominee, supporting actor, “Can You Ever Forgive Me,” 2019), Colin Hanks (Primetime Emmy Awards nominee, supporting actor, “Fargo,” 2014) and John Slattery (four-time Primetime Emmy Awards nominee, supporting actor, “Mad Men,” 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011).

“Predator: Badlands,” MPA rated PG-13; 1 hour, 47 minutes. Dan Trachtenberg directs Elle Fanning and Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi in the Science-Fiction Thriller. A predator is outcast from his clan. It’s the sixth live-action film, seventh overall film and ninth in the franchise.

“Die My Love,” MPA rated R; 1 hour, 58 minutes. Lynne Ramsay (director, “We Need to Talk About Kevin,” 2011) directs Jennifer Lawrence (four-time Oscar nominee, actress: “Joy,” 2016; supporting actress, “American Hustle,” 2014; actress, “Winter Bone,” 2011; Oscar winner, actress, ”Silver Linings Playbook,” 2013), Robert Pattinson, Sissy Spacek (five-time Oscar nominee; Oscar winner, actress, “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” 1981), Nick Nolte (three-time Oscar nominee) and LaKeith Stanfield (Oscar nominee) in the Comedy Drama Thriller. A young mother is becoming mentally-ill.

“Christy,” MPA rated R; 2 hours, 15 minutes. David Michôd directs Sydney Sweeney in the Biography Boxing Docudrama. The movie is about Christy Martin, a successful female boxer of the 1990s.

Movie opening dates from Internet Movie Database as of Nov. 2 are subject to change.

Three Popcorn Boxes out of Five Popcorn Boxes