Eddie Murphy stars as a legend of black entertainment in this ode to outrageous humor
In “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. Mr.
Murphy, whose big-screen career has been hovering somewhere between abeyance and abdication in recent years, also scores a twofer triumph of performance with phenomenal comic energy. He plays the 1970s comedian Rudy Ray Moore, as well as Moore’s extravagant alter ego, the profane pimp and eponymous hero of his debut film, “Dolemite,” which was surely the...
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