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Cadillac Records

2008

Darnell Martin

Adrien Brody, Beyoncé, Jeffrey Wright, Emmanuelle Chriqui ...

6.6

3,751

Musical. Drama In this tale of sex, violence, race and rock and roll in 1950's Chicago, CADILLAC RECORDS follows the exciting but turbulent lives of some of America's musical legends, including Muddy Waters, Leonard Chess, Little Walter and Howlin’ Wolf, Etta James and Chuck Berry.

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The film is a fascinating record of the evolution of a black musical style, and the tangled motives of the white men who had an instinct for it (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Peter Travers Rolling Stone	"It’s all a blur, except for the music. That’s workin’ (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"	NEU
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"A rollicking and insightful celebration of Chicago blues in its hectic golden age (...) would be worth seeing for the music alone. (...) Like those big, boxy Caddies, it’s built for comfort, not for speed. It hums, it purrs and it roars."	POS
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"There are some good things here (...) But sadly the movie conforms to all the music-biopic stereotypes we've seen in 'Walk the Line', 'Ray' and 'Dreamgirls' (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United States	John Anderson Variety	"[Martin] makes some kind of music with the percolating ’50s biopic 'Cadillac Records' — mostly because she mines a righteous, mythic sensibility out of the story of Leonard Chess"	POS

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