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 ...

Cadillac Records is by no means Mr. Wrights film alone, and his work is enriched by the skill and verve of a prodigious ensemble. The film is not thank goodness another dutiful musical biopic, but ...

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 ...