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Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere Review: Jeremy Allen White Turns the Nebraska Sessions Into Quiet Lightning

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Painterly illustration of an acoustic guitar and vintage cassette recorder on a wooden table beside a window overlooking a highway at dusk, capturing the Nebraska-era mood of the Springsteen biopic

Most music biopics are greatest-hits packages with the edges sanded off. Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere is the opposite: a deliberately small, brooding film about the bleakest chapter of Bruce Springsteen’s career, and how a haunted bedroom demo became one of the most beloved albums ever made. It divided critics and underperformed at the box … Read more

A House of Dynamite Review: Kathryn Bigelow’s Nuclear Nightmare Is Still the Most Disturbing Film on Netflix

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Abstract illustration of glowing missile trails streaking across a stormy night sky above a city skyline, evoking the nuclear-crisis mood of A House of Dynamite

One year after it detonated onto Netflix, Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite has lost none of its power to ruin your evening — and I mean that as the highest compliment. This is a political thriller stripped of all comfort: no heroes, no villains, no reassuring resolution. Just eighteen minutes, one missile, and the … Read more