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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 03 Oct 2019

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…

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By Kenneth Turan (2,323) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 03 Oct 2019

Murphy 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,…

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By Lindsey Bahr (430) for The Associated Press (882) on 03 Oct 2019

There’s nothing terribly interesting about the way it’s told, it’s just a straightforward underdog story with a big beating heart…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 03 Oct 2019

Murphy...brings so much hope and hunger and pure life force to the role that he makes you believe in every punchline, pelvic thrust, and egregiously…

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By Robert Abele (1,309) for TheWrap (3,203) on 03 Oct 2019

Murphy’s resplendent turn anchors a true if predictably told story of showbiz aspirations and can-do spirit, but in the great whoosh of majestically…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 03 Oct 2019

Though the formulaic result comes up short as cinema, it’ll make you laugh you ass off. There are worse trade-offs…

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By Katie Rife (451) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 26 Sep 2019

What the film lacks in depth and focus, it makes up for in personality…

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By Odie Henderson (402) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 16 Sep 2019

A typical biopic buoyed by its unrelenting hilarity, its affection for its subject and commitment to the time and place it is set…

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By Chris Tilly (98) for IGN (1,013) on 11 Sep 2019

In spite of the adult material, it’s a genuinely affecting underdog story, and a rallying cry to anyone who has ever dreamed big…

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By Barry Hertz (792) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 10 Sep 2019

Essential to the film’s success is Murphy, clearly having his best time in a long time as Moore, who adopted a flashy pimp-esque persona…

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By Tim Grierson (1,482) for Screen Daily (1,021) on 09 Sep 2019

An enjoyable star vehicle that provides the beloved comic with one of his most substantial roles…

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By K. Austin Collins (343) for Vanity Fair (761) on 09 Sep 2019

It feels at times like a Tracy Jordan spoof of a movie, and not always for the better…

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By Sarah Kurchak (64) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 09 Sep 2019

A celebration of Rudy Ray Moore, the creative process, and black creativity, Dolemite Is My Name is an absolute joy to watch…

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By David Ehrlich (1,229) for IndieWire (3,631) on 08 Sep 2019

Unfolding like a slaphappy cross between “Baadasssss…

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By John Defore (1,351) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 08 Sep 2019

Odd, then, that [Brewer and Murphy's] Dolemite Is My Name is such a conventional-feeling biopic, one with its share of laughs and surprising…

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By Ethan Vestby (87) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 08 Sep 2019

Dolemite Is My Name sadly coasts on a reliable biopic structure and handsome production values…

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By Jason Bailey (832) for The Playlist (3,871) on 08 Sep 2019

In playing a man who was so clearly among his comic ancestors and influences, we see, for the first time in a long time, Murphy’s sheer joy…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 08 Sep 2019

A total motherf—kin’ blast…

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