Bruce Springsteen may rule the stage but the Boss biopic, “Deliver Me From Nowhere,” doesn’t rock the theater in quite the same way.

Scott Cooper’s new film stars “The Bear” Emmy winner Jeremy Allen White as the proud son of Jersey during the humble making of 1982’s “Nebraska,” rather than the sensation that was 1984’s “Born in the USA.”

Jeremy Strong, of “Succession” acclaim, co-stars as Springsteen’s manager and advocate Jon Landau.

As of Thursday afternoon, “Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere” held a 65% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a score of 62 on Metacritic.

The San Francisco Chronicle dubbed the film “an endless mope,” unsuccessful at “illuminating the artist behind the songs” — despite White doing a “credible job of resembling the Boss.”

“The clichés get ticked off like clockwork, which is a shame because there’s an interesting movie trapped inside,” read the Boston Globe’s 2-out-of-4-star review. The Daily Beast similarly lamented the “greatest-hits package of genre clichés.”

Looper, awarding the “soulless” biopic just 4 out of 10, proclaimed that the actors “do their level best, but they’re let down by a bafflingly inept script and unimaginative filmmaking.”

Both Newsday and Observer scored the film 2 out of 4, with the former saying White’s “convincing portrayal of the Boss isn’t enough to save this gloomy and self-serious biopic.”

However, not all of the reviews were quite so scathing.

In one of the more highly rated, the San Jose Mercury News afforded the “deeply introspective” movie 3.5 out of 4 stars, commending it for its “compassion for how creativity and depression so often can be inexorably linked and produce such iconic works.”

RogerEbert.com found the film “a soulful and meditative character study of a depressed artist laid bare.”

The Wrap hailed the film as a “bracing and moving antidote to beefed-up, heavily fictionalized rock biopics,” while The Hollywood Reporter praised its “solemn integrity” for portraying Springsteen “not as a Rock God but as a fragile human being who’s also an uncompromising artist.”

But overall, the reviews were mixed.

According to the Toronto Star, the “far from transcendent” flick — from a script by Cooper and Warren Zanes, who wrote the book on which it’s based — at least “honors its subject’s courage more than it rewards his myth.”

Empire Magazine’s 3-out-of-5 assessment found that, much like the musician himself, the biopic only “finds its true voice once it stops trying to play the hits.”

“Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere” hit theaters nationwide on Friday.

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