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Released on 24 October in the US and Canada, and internationally from 30 October<\/p>\n

\"DisneyDisneySpringsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere<\/p>\n

Are we moving on from the era when pop music biopics such as Ray, Walk the Line and Elvis<\/a> would squeeze decades of a star’s life into two hours? Last year’s A Complete Unknown<\/a> concentrated on the earliest years of Bob Dylan’s career, and now Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere dramatises an even shorter chapter of its subject’s life story. As played by Jeremy Allen White (The Bear<\/a>), Bruce Springsteen is shown making just one album, 1982’s Nebraska. He is on the verge of superstardom, but he is also having a crisis of confidence. His solution: to retreat to his bedroom in New Jersey with a four-track recorder and an acoustic guitar, to work on a set of songs about blue-collar disappointment. Jeremy Strong (Succession) co-stars as Springsteen’s manager, Jon Landau, while Stephen Graham (Adolescence) plays his hard-drinking father in the black-and-white flashbacks to his 1950s childhood. “If some fans go in expecting the equivalent of a greatest hits package, think again,” writes Pete Hammond in Deadline<\/a>. “Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere is the real deal, an intelligent, deliberately paced journey into the soul of an artist.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Released internationally on 24 October<\/p>\n

\"AmazonAmazon MGM StudiosHedda<\/p>\n

Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler was first staged in 1891, but Nia DaCosta (Candyman<\/a>, The Marvels) has updated the classic play in more ways than one. The writer-director has moved the action to an English mansion in 1954, where the newly married anti-heroine is throwing a long, lavish and increasingly chaotic party. Two other key changes to the text are that the title character (played by Tessa Thompson) is now a black woman in a predominantly white environment, and her ex-lover is now a woman (Nina Hoss). The most crucial update, though, is that DaCosta has made her adaptation an intensely stylish and sensuous affair, as embodied by its leading lady. It’s a “devilish thrill” to watch the “sultry” Thompson in a film “full of attitude, energy, and colour”, writes Kristy Puchko in IndieWire<\/a>. “Sumptuous, hot, and challenging, this is a drama of love, sex, and regret that burns like a shot of whisky.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

Released in select US cinemas on 22 October, and then internationally on 29 October on Prime Video<\/p>\n

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