'Road Diary' Review: Bruce Springsteen Documentary Brings Joy and Faces Loss
09/09/2024 01:40 AM
The third Bruce Springsteen documentary by director Thom Zimny to play at the Toronto International Film Festival, "Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band" is also the biggest, the most expansive and the most all-encompassing. Ostensibly a chronicle of the world tour that Springsteen undertook last year, his first in six years, it also functions as a career retrospective of sorts. But more than that, it becomes a story of life and loss, because that's the singular position occupied by the 2023-2024 tour. Where "The Promise: The Making of Darkness of the Edge of Town" . . .