as its title character might put it, "Dolemite Is My Name" is a total motherf--kin' blast; And it turns the story into a celebration of the effrontery of African-American showbiz
a straightforward telling of one of Hollywood's weirder success stories; "Dolemite Is My Name" is often quite fun, and it celebrates a spirit in which will-do perseveres even in an absence of can-do
a feel-good inspirational tale about outsiders succeeding despite all odds; Like Rudy Ray Moore himself, "Dolemite Is My Name" is sometimes brash, always good-natured, proudly imperfect, and endlessly entertaining
a breezy, joyful, balls-to-the-wall biopic about the making of Moore's signature masterpiece; "Dolemite Is My Name" is exactly the kind of film the blaxploitation icon would've loved
"Dolemite Is My Name" is, in many ways, the kind of by-the-books biopic that we've got more than enough of these days; it's so consistently entertaining and uproariously funny, with such engaging work by its star, it's frankly hard to complain
by Chris Tilly [IGN ]
