Dolemite Is My Name
First screened in November 2019
Director: Craig Brewer. Cast: Eddie Murphy, Mike Epps, Craig Robinson, Tituss Burgess, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Keegan-Michael Key, Wesley Snipes, Ron Cephas Jones, Snoop Dogg, T.I., Barry Shabaka Henley, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Luenell, Claude Phillips, Arthur Fuller, Chris Rock, Aleksandar Filimonovic, Ivo Nandi, Michael Peter Bolus, Kazy Tauginas, John Michael Herndon, Bob Odenkirk. Screenplay: Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski. Twitter Capsule:
Writers lean again on "This sucks and is thus sublime" but exuberance—Murphy's, especially—puts the film over.
VOR:③
I'd love for the movie to have probed further the complex value systems, communal ambivalences, and power dynamics. It's still an unusual effort.
