Darnell Martin’s Cadillac Records tells the story of Chicago’s Chess Records and the seminal blues artists it launched, among them Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Howlin’ Wolf, Chuck Berry, and Etta ...

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 ...

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.

First, a key spoiler: Cadillac Records is not the story of Chess Records, the blues label started in Chicago in 1950 by brothers Leonard and Phil Chess that featured Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Bo ...

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 ...

“Cadillac Records” focuses on Leonard Chess, the founder and co-owner of Chess Records, and his cultivation of a stable of legendary blues performers. At the outset of “Cadillac Records,” Leonard ...

Robinson is a freelance writer. Fans of musical dramas may experience some deja vu while watching “Cadillac Records”; the story is remarkably similar to one told in the middle of 2006’s “Dreamgirls,” ...

"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 ...

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 ...

First, a key spoiler: Cadillac Records is not the story of Chess Records, the blues label started in Chicago in 1950 by brothers Leonard and Phil Chess that featured among its stable of artists Muddy ...

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, ...