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.

“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.

Dolemite Is My Name gets things exactly right in depicting the stir that was surprisingly created around the movie. It earned $12 million during its theatrical run, which was obviously a huge ...

Odd, then, that the pair’s Dolemite Is My Name is such a conventional-feeling biopic, one with its share of laughs and surprising anecdotes but little of the enduring strangeness that kept the ...

“Dolemite Is My Name” portrays the rise of influential blaxploitation filmmaker Rudy Ray Moore (Murphy) from “Black Snake Moan” director, Craig Brewer. Wednesday, June 4, 2025.

Here it is. Here’s your comeback-vehicle reminder of why Eddie Murphy became such a gigantic movie star some 35 years ago. In the flat-out hilarious 1970s period piece “Dolemite Is My Name ...

If you live on the west coast, Dolemite Is My Name should show up on your Netflix page at midnight, or 12 a.m. PT. If you live on the east coast, that means the movie will drop on Netflix at 3 a.m ...

But Dolemite Is My Name is undeniably a big, prestigious win for Murphy, and his first R-rated film since 1999. As pointed out in Murphy’s recent Times profile, ...

As a character study, Dolemite Is My Name is just fine. While Rudy's thwarted dreams, entrepreneurial spirit, and winning personality get plenty of screen time, we get little sense of who he is ...

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At the Los Angeles premiere of Netflix's "Dolemite Is My Name," Eddie Murphy returned to the big screen as filmmaker and comedian Rudy Ray Moore. By Alexandra Del Rosario In 1975, comedian, singer ...

"Dolemite Is My Name" chronicles the ramshackle, threadbare making of "Dolemite" with Wesley Snipes playing director D'Urville Martin. It's a paean to low-budget moviemaking and a celebration of ...