Reviews of the Bosch

Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere  has a lot in common with   A Complete Unknown . Both music biopics that, rather than attempt a holistic picture of an artists’ life, hone in on a very particular period that speaks to the artist’s personality, creativity, and significance. A key difference though is that A Complete Unknown  keeps Bob Dylan’s personal biography at an arm’s length where  Deliver Me from Nowhere  embraces it -in fact it makes it central to the movie’s story. This is in keeping with very broad music biopic tropes, especially down to the flashbacks to childhood filtered through a melancholy black-and-white lens. And even as the movie doesn’t cover the whole career of Bruce Springsteen, it does present the kind of close-ended story that the worst of this genre is known for. And yet there is something it taps at that is engaging about Bruce, much as I don’t entirely think director Scott Cooper understands his subject as well as he would like to. Je...