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

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 ...