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 ...

Adrien Brody and Jeffrey Wright in 'Cadillac Records.' Darnell Martin could have made an entire movie about Muddy Waters. Or Etta James. Or Chuck Berry. Instead, the writer-director has made a movie ...

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.

Mug shots of Mos Def as Chuck Berry from his arrest for driving with a white girl across state lines appear in front of smiling white teens surfing. The Beach Boys’ “Surfin’ USA,” a rip-off of Berry’s ...

Few biographical movies about social-justice heroes achieve the perfection arrived at in Gus Van Sant’s Milk. Sean Penn does arguably his finest turn as Harvey Milk, who in 1977 became the nation’s ...