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The Music Soars and the Story Bores in 'Cadillac Records'

By Kristian Lin
Fort Worth Weekly | December 4, 2008
The story obeys the same music-biography conventions that we last saw being parodied in Walk Hard. This film is by Darnell Martin, the writer-director who has largely been confined to TV since his 1994 filmmaking debut I Like It Like That, a movie pitched at Latino audiences at a time when very few other movies were. He doesn't have the advantage here of working in a field where there's no competition, and his sense of drama is incurably hackneyed and unsubtle.
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Tags: black music, Jeffrey Wright, Adrien Brody, Beyonce Knowles, Cadillac Records, Darnell Martin

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