Eddie Murphy's Biography in Netflix Is Not a Documentary, but a Hagiography.

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At a time when each celebrity must have a filmed biography to feel that his career is complete (in addition to the classic memoirs written by some shadow writer), it is difficult to separate what we have classically known as a documentary from a simple hagiography made to pay tribute to all the goodness of his protagonist. There are saveable cases, of course, but most of the films made with the absolute collaboration of his focus of interest end…