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 ...

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.

Jeffrey Wright does Muddy Waters justice, but Beyonc and Mos Def fall short. Just as Joaquin Phoenix did a marvelous job capturing the music and spirit of Johnny Cash in the film Walk the Line, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...