"is without question committed to his portrayal of Bruce Springsteen - the movie unveils him with a bang, rocking his heart out and his ass off with a live performance of "Born to Run," sweat pouring off him with the effort. Yet while physically, White does his best to resemble one of New Jersey's most beloved sons, it's pretty much impossible to get around the eyes. White has great eyes... They're simply not Bruce's. No matter how much he squints."
"keeping its focus relatively tight rather than trying to unpack the full scope of Springsteen's life. It chooses a particularly intriguing period of time to explore, too - using Warren Zanes's Deliver Me from Nowhere as its source material, the movie spotlights the creation of the album Nebraska, putting the creative process front and center while also doing its best to reveal the complicated emotions that Springsteen was exploring in his ad-hoc bedroom studio, while faced with a creative turning point."
"A movie like this needs some sort of central tension to drive the story forward, and in this case the crux of Nowhere focuses on just how challenging an experience the album was, from Springsteen's initial conception of what he wanted to do with these songs, to the struggle to translate that to his specifications. Writer/director Scott Cooper really glories in those details, from the rudimentary four-track set-up Springsteen used for recording the initial Colts Neck demo tape"
Jeremy Allen White delivers a physically committed portrayal of Bruce Springsteen, including an energetic live 'Born to Run' performance, though his eyes remain noticeably unlike Springsteen's. The narrative concentrates on the period during which the Nebraska album was created, spotlighting the creative process and the complicated emotions Springsteen explored in his ad-hoc bedroom studio during a creative turning point. Central tension stems from translating Springsteen's initial conceptions into recordable form. Director Scott Cooper emphasizes granular details such as a rudimentary four-track setup, channel-flipping inspiration, spiral-bound notebooks, felt-tip-pen edits, and televised Badlands looping.
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