Eddie Murphy portrays real-life legend Rudy Ray Moore, a comedy and rap pioneer who proved naysayers wrong when his hilarious, obscene, kung-fu fighting alter ego, Dolemite, became a 1970s Blaxploitation phenomenon.... (Full plot summary below)
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Eddie Murphy portrays real-life legend Rudy Ray Moore, a comedy and rap pioneer who proved naysayers wrong when his hilarious, obscene, kung-fu fighting alter ego, Dolemite, became a 1970s Blaxploitation phenomenon.
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| New York Magazine (Vulture)David EdelsteinDolemite Is My Name has the glee of a John Waters movie in which it’s freaks-versus-squares, with freakishness the only healthy design for living. |
| TimeStephanie ZacharekIt’s also hugely entertaining and joyously profane, a movie whose spirit is so big the screen can barely contain it. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperIn the flat-out hilarious 1970s period piece “Dolemite Is My Name,” Murphy is the funniest he’s been since we last saw Sherman Klump and family in the early 2000s — but he’s equally effective in the handful of relatively low-key, dramatic moments. It’s a fully realized performance. |
| New York PostSara StewartThis comic biopic is a blast from start to finish. |
| Wall Street JournalJoe MorgensternIn Dolemite Is My Name, Eddie Murphy takes a good idea and runs with it, soars with it, and turns it into a great, if wildly erratic, twofer tribute — to a singular legend of black entertainment culture, and to the transformative power of raunchy, outrageous humor. |
| RogerEbert.comOdie HendersonA typical biopic buoyed by its unrelenting hilarity, its affection for its subject and commitment to the time and place it is set. And yet, something still nags at me about its lead performance. Don’t get me wrong, Murphy is very, very good, and on the basis of this, I’d love to see him tackle Pryor next. I just buy him more as Rudy Ray Moore than I do as Dolemite. |
| UproxxVince ManciniDolemite Is My Name is escapism, but it’s also not mindless escapism. |
| Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranMurphy is back, and both his old gifts and some new ones are on engaging display in the rowdy, raunchy, inescapably funny Dolemite Is My Name, a gleefully profane biopic and a passion project the star has been nurturing for years. |
| The Associated PressLindsey BahrThere’s nothing terribly interesting about the way it’s told, it’s just a straightforward underdog story with a big beating heart. |
| Paste MagazineJoi ChildsMurphy plays it all so sincerely we root for Moore. Leaning into how shoestring the actual 1975 Dolemite film looked while still celebrating the team behind it is the best way to capture the essence of Moore’s films without making fun of him. |
