Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere is the biggest disappointment of the year – stream his incredible Disney+ documentary instead

I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news

Opinion By Jasmine Valentine published 24 October 2025

Jeremy Allen White plays the star in Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere. (Image credit: 20th Century Studios)

Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere is out today, and I cannot urge you enough to do anything else with your time instead of watching it. That sounds incredibly harsh, especially since The Bear star Jeremy Allen White is playing rock God Bruce, but hear me out.

Where do I start? Instead of being a typical 'you're gonna be a star one day, kid' type of biopic, writer-director Scott Cooper chooses a specific moment in the star's career – the writing and recording of his sixth album, Nebraska, to focus on. This is a potentially interesting approach, and it's worked in films, such as Pablo Larraín's Spencer and Maria – yet here, it doesn't.

What I'm sure was a challenging and transformative period, both in Springsteen’s musical evolution and his personal life, doesn't translate on screen in the slightest, and Allen White fails to hit the heights of the real-life icon in his performances (particularly the singing).

Deliver Me From Nowhere never really goes anywhere, fails to hold the viewers' attention, and completely glosses over everything that made Springsteen’s journey to global stardom exciting and timeless. For me, this means it’s a pretty poor job – sorry Scott.

If I was reviewing the movie, I'd give it one and a half stars out of five, which is my second-lowest rating of the year (second, astonishingly, only to A Minecraft Movie). But I'm not, so here's what I suggest instead: don't watch Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere, but do stream this incredible Disney+ documentary movie about The Boss instead.

The real deal

Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band | Trailer Ufficiale | Disney+ - YouTube

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So much about what Springsteen fans love is watching him come alive on stage, but it’s also fascinating to learn more about the humble man behind the spectacular performances. While Deliver Me From Nowhere doesn’t give us many concert scenes and and doesn’t tell us enough about the Springsteen we think we know, these facets are the heart of Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band.

From archival footage and band rehearsals to concert highlights and in-depth interviews with the man himself, Road Diary features everything needed to give us the complete picture of one man's musical and personal life journey. If you've ever seen Springsteen give an interview, you'll know how candidly he comes across, never holding anything back, and never coming across as anyone but his true self.

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