USA Today: Cadillac Records
USA Today: Cadillac Records
http://www.usatoday.com/life/movies/reviews/2008-12-04-cadillac-records_N.htm Review, by Claudia Puig: "The film features too little about Berry (an engaging Mos Def), who crosses over to great fame." [Rating: 2.5 out of 4] C > Cadillac Records Though the music in Cadillac Records hums along powerfully, the film could use a tune-up. The story traces the rise of Chess Records and the turbulent careers of such legendary R&B artists of the 1950s and '60s as Muddy Waters, Etta James, Howlin'...Music revs up this 'Cadillac' By Eric Liebowitz, Sony TriStar Pictures, via AP Beyonce Knowles plays Etta James, who mixes business with pleasure in Cadillac Records . ABOUT THE MOVIE Cadillac Etta James 2008 Muddy Waters artists Chuck Berry widget Cadillac Records Chess Howlin ' Wolf
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Review, by Ty Burr: "It's a hell of a story, and Cadillac Records wants to tell it so badly that it threatens to warp the narrative out of recognition." [Rating: 2.5 out of 4]
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Review, by James Berardinelli: "There are plenty of small pleasures to be found throughout Darnell Martin's feature, but a compelling storyline featuring three-dimensional characters is not among them." [Rating: 2.5 out of 4]
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Review, by Matt Collar: "We never get a real sense of what made these recordings so different or revolutionary. Part of the problem is that re-recorded versions of songs by the actors were used in the film, with vastly mixed results that never match the ferocity and excitement of the original tracks." [Rating: 1 out of 4]
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