The 1975 movie “Dolemite,” an actual movie starring the real Rudy Ray Moore, has all of this and more. It’s also bad — so-bad-it’s-kind-of-enjoyable-bad, but still, it’s bad.

Eddie Murphy wanted to tell Rudy Ray Moore's story in 'Dolemite Is My Name,' knowing many would wonder if it was true. Amazingly, much of it is.

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 ...

“Dolemite Is My Name” tells the story of a black man trying to make and market a film in a world full of shut doors, so it’s about a struggle that’s on some level heroic.

"Eurovision Song Contest," "Dolemite Is My Name" and other successful Netflix comedies. “Cats” won the “honor” of the Worst Picture prize of 2019 from the Razzies, and John Travolta and ...

"Dolemite Is My Name," the Eddie Murphy movie about Rudy Ray Moore, is set in the 1970s, but offers insights into showbiz today.

“Dolemite Is My Name” kicks off the Eddie Murphy renaissance that’s been a very long time coming. And this comic biopic is a blast from start to finish. As ’70s cult comedian Rudy Ray ...

Overtly vulgar and salacious, “Dolemite Is My Name” is an unabashed celebration of the spirit and life of 1970s blaxploitation-era film icon Rudy Ray Moore (Eddie Murphy).

In Dolemite Is My Name, Eddie Murphy delivers one of the best performances of his career, but what's truly surprising is the true story of Rudy Ray Moore that the film is based on.

Eddie Murphy is back in a big way in the Netflix biopic 'Dolemite Is My Name,' and the 1970s blaxploitation hero is the comedian's greatest-hits role. Watch Party Newsletter Best TV shows of 2025 ...

And if “Dolemite Is My Name” seems content to stay on the surface of things and just give people a good time, perhaps that’s a testament to how seamlessly it weaves in a greater resonance.