Spinning Blues Into Lies

Cadillac Records can't handle the truth

Comments (0) By Robert Wilonsky Thursday, Dec 4 2008
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Brody and Wright: Leonard and Muddy make blues lite.
Brody and Wright: Leonard and Muddy make blues lite.

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Cadillac Records, starring Adrien Brody, Jeffrey Wright, Beyoncé Knowles, and Cedric the Entertainer. Written and directed by Darnell Martin. Rated R. 108 minutes.

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Fabrications in the name of movie myth-making are, of course, to be expected from a genre that demands condensing lives into a handful of defining episodes; all biopics reduce and trivialize. But so egregious are the deficiencies and distortions here — in this universe, the Rolling Stones came to the United States and the Beach Boys ripped off Chuck Berry long before anyone had ever heard of Elvis Presley — that it's almost impossible to discern whether there's anything decent about the moviemaking itself. With everything so wrong, how can there be anything right about Cadillac Records?

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