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'Dolemite is My Name' review: Eddie Murphy triumphs, and a blaxploitation star rises again

Eddie Murphy isn't Greta Garbo or anything. Now 58, he works steadily even though audiences and tastes come and go, and people don't necessarily relish a new Eddie Murphy vehicle the way they once did. The forgettable heart-warmers of recent years had a way of cooling our affection.

"Dolemite is My Name" warms hearts, too, but this breezy, fact-based account of underground comedy star and unlikely action movie hero Rudy Ray Moore hands Murphy

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