Bruce Springsteen Biopic Lands Middling RT Rating A Week Earlier than Launch

Springsteen: Ship Me from Nowhere is dividing critics. 2025’s Springsteen: Ship Me from Nowhere is a Bruce Springsteen biopic depicting the Boss (Jeremy Allen White) recording his stripped-down 1982 album Nebraska. The film, which was directed by Scott Cooper, additionally stars Paul Walter Hauser, Odessa Younger, Stephen Graham, Gaby Hoffmann, Marc Maron, David Krumholtz, Grace Gummer, and Jeremy Robust.

Rotten Tomatoes has been steadily aggregating evaluations for Springsteen: Ship Me from Nowhere because it had its world premiere at Telluride on August 29. Now, every week earlier than it debuts in theaters, it has settled at a middling rating of 68%, which has been tabulated from 41 completely different critics’ evaluations.

Whereas the rating may fluctuate as extra evaluations are added, on the time of writing, it’s 8% above the edge previous which a film might be thought-about “Contemporary.”

So far as the film’s particular person scores go, it has earned just a few 4 out of 5s, one 9 out of 10, and one 4 out of 4 (from Awards Radar‘s Joey Magidson). Nevertheless, nearly all of critics’ scores for Ship Me from Nowhere are extra middling, starting from 2 out of 5 to 7 out of 10.

Nevertheless, nearly all of critics agree on just a few issues. Whereas mileage varies, many have stated that the music biopic film is a surface-level exploration of the lifetime of the long-lasting rocker. Nevertheless, the bulk have praised Jeremy Allen White’s efficiency within the title position and Odessa Younger’s portrayal of Springsteen’s love curiosity, Faye Romano.

Despite its middling rating, Springsteen: Ship Me from Nowhere has earned director Scott Cooper his greatest Rotten Tomatoes rating since 2017. Lately, the director’s outings, specifically 2021’s Antlers (59%) and 2022’s The Pale Blue Eye (62%), have landed a lot nearer to the road between Contemporary and Rotten.

The Jeremy Allen White film has additionally earned the Shameless and The Bear star his seventh-best Rotten Tomatoes rating ever for a feature-length challenge. Whereas it can’t examine to latest efforts corresponding to The Iron Claw (89%) and Fremont (98%), it continues a streak of optimistic evaluations for his makes an attempt to interrupt out on the large display screen.

Moreover, it stays to be seen if audiences have the identical response to Springsteen: Ship Me from Nowhere that critics have. There may be precedent for a contemporary star car music biopic incomes a a lot increased viewers rating, as Timothée Chalamet’s 2024 Bob Dylan film A Full Unknown earned 82% from critics and 95% from audiences.