Good, bad, or somewhere in between, ‘Cadillac Records’ would be an enjoyable experience for someone not even watching the screen. A film about the rise of Chess Records, which recorded ...

It’s May 1968 and a turbulent age, with the life-changing political events of half a century still unfolding. Riots and revolution circle this third stone from the sun as war, terrorism and civil ...

That’s the way it goes with the blues, the music’s historical chapters filled with myths and half-truths, stories getting written down only after being handed down from one generation to another. The ...

In Cadillac Records, writer/director Darnell Martin’s ambitious attempt to capture Chess Records’ iconic era in American Music, the flaws present themselves almost as soon as the opening credits roll.

Cadillac Records is always ambitious, sometimes entertaining, but despite some great music is a disappointing new film about the early days of blues, rock and roll, racism, and the legendary record ...

Starring Adrien Brody, Beyoncé Knowles, Mos Def, Eamonn Walker, Jeffrey Wright and Columbus Short B+ If I had realized that Darnell Martin was the writer/director, I'd have gone to see Cadillac ...

Brilliantly cast and ambitious to beat the band, Cadillac Records is a little movie that aims big. It tries to capture nothing less than the moment when white culture embraced black music, and rock 'n ...

Approaching the blues with the enthusiasm of an overcaffeinated brass band, helmer Darnell Martin nonetheless makes some kind of music with the percolating '50s biopic "Cadillac Records" -- mostly ...

Written and Directed by Darnell Martin, “Cadillac Records” chronicles the rise of Chess Records and its recording artists. The film stars Adrien Brody as Leonard Chess, Jeffrey Wright as Muddy Waters, ...

There was nothing synthetic about either, and that’s the heart of “Cadillac Records,” a film about the founding of Chicago’s Chess Records company. What became the home of a slew of 1950s and ’60s ...

"Cadillac Records" comes from Sony Music Film, so it's no surprise that the project is more a soundtrack in search of a movie than a film about the pre-eminent blues record label of the 1950s and '60s ...