Don Cheadle

DON CHEADLEThere's a make-or-break moment in any movie based on the life of a pop culture giant—a moment when you either feel the performance burrowing under your skin or realize it 'sjust dancing around the truth instead of channeling it. In Miles Ahead, a fractured, free form big-screen riff on jazz trumpeter Miles Davis, that moment comes when Don Cheadle, play­ing the spiky, otherworldly Prince of Darkness, as Davis was known, takes the stage and plays the trumpet for the first time. You bre...