‘Jack’s Ride’ Review: A Portuguese Cabbie Drives Down Memory Lane in an Evocative Docufiction Hybrid Variety 1 hr ago To take one glance at Joaquim Calçada, you might expect him to have a story as tall as his hair. Pushing 70 years of age, zipped tightly into a leather bomber as glossy and black as his shellacked pompadour, he has the look of a grizzled Elvis impersonator, way adrift in small-town Portugal. Yet Joaquim’s life is a grounded one, weighed down by ordinary personal regrets and socioeconomic strains, even as his memories are dusted with second-hand glitter: Once a New York limo driver to the likes of Muhammad Ali and Jackie Kennedy, he now finds himself facing a lean blue-collar retirement in his home country, with little to show for his erstwhile travels and ambitions but some well-worn anecdotes. They find a sympathetic ear, however, in Susana Nobre’s lovely, surprising miniature “Jack’s Ride,” a perceptive hybrid documentary that leans into drama as it indulges its subject’s gifts as a raconteur.