Springsteen: Liberami dal nulla

...at its heart, the Scott Cooper-directed drama is about the complicated relationship between a son and a father.

Cooper’s film wants to be the “Nebraska” of rock biopics, but it lacks the finesse to retain the essence of that sound when transferring it into the body of a commercial biopic.

Jeremy Allen White is a convincingly tortured rock star in this smartly narrow and specific look at a particular chapter of music history

Springsteen becomes as raw and as frank as the characters in his songs.    

...plays so much like a movie hastily greenlit in the wake of last year’s Dylan picture A Complete Unknown, even though it actually got started well before that movie was released.

This low-key biopic resists fireworks but showcases a vocal performance which will surely land its star an Oscar nomination.