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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 17 Oct 2014

Cadillac Records may be a mess dramatically, but it's a wonderful mess, and not just because of the great music…

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By Tasha Robinson (753) for Chicago Tribune (6,211) on 16 Oct 2014

Mos Def makes a terrific Berry, all flash and confidence, and Wright offers a memorably soulful take on Waters, whether he's strutting, singing,…

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By Peter Rainer (2,575) for Christian Science Monitor (3,788) on 06 Jun 2014

The film suffers at times from biopic-itis – the narrative unfolds with the requisite heartbreak carefully apportioned – but it's always…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 28 Mar 2014

Cadillac Records is an account of the Chess story that depends more on music than history, which is perhaps as it should be…

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By Kirk Honeycutt (1,481) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 22 Jan 2014

In watching this film, it's best not to worry much about the film's fidelity to history but rather simply lean back and enjoy one great jam…

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By Claudia Puig (2,080) for USA Today (4,117) on 23 Dec 2013

The film features too little about Berry (an engaging Mos Def), who crosses over to great fame…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 14 Dec 2013

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…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 22 Nov 2013

It's an enjoyable ramble, with a feel for what made the early days of rock as wild as any that followed…

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By Stephen Cole (251) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 12 Feb 2013

Anyone who likes pop music or wonders how bands like the Rolling Stones got rolling will enjoy the ride…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 20 May 2012

The ensemble is stupendous--howlingly great--and the music goes deep…

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By Robert Wilonsky (520) for Village Voice (8,525) on 29 Nov 2011

With everything so wrong, how can there be anything right about Cadillac Records…

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By John Anderson (1,358) for Variety (12,700) on 25 Aug 2011

Most of the details are right-on in Cadillac Records, though the director's efforts to sell it sometimes steers the film into mawkish or hokey…

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By Eric Kohn (1,203) for IndieWire (3,631) on 15 Mar 2011

“REC” delivers a steady stream of frights because its camera man never knows quite where to look — and by the time he figures it out,…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Salon (312) on 06 Feb 2011

Such an exhilarating, spirited piece of work that its embellishments and omissions cease to matter…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 13 Sep 2010

It's all a blur, except for the music. That's workin…

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By Matthew Turner (2,508) for ViewLondon (2,339) on 14 Jan 2010

Superbly acted, brilliantly directed and absolutely bloody terrifying, this is one of the best films of the year…

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By Chris Nashawaty (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 23 Dec 2009

Shot in shaky handheld style, [REC] is a bit like George A. Romero’s Diary of the Dead, but, you know, actually scary…

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By Sean Axmaker (1,564) for Seanax.com (387) on 12 Jul 2009

Directors Jaume Balagueró and Paco Plaza, rising stars in the Spanish horror scene, create a buzzing urgency in a familiar premise…

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By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for Miss FlickChick (73) on 01 Mar 2009

This short, stripped-down, first-person horror picture delivers some brutally effective shocks and gradually conjures a haunting atmosphere…

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By Lou Lumenick (2,103) for New York Post (6,650) on 18 Dec 2008

The film's most memorable performance is by Eamonn Walker, who is scarily good as the singer known as Howlin' Wolf…

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