Mandingo 1975

Critics score:
31 / 100

Reviews provided by RottenTomatoes

Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine: Until this moment we cannot be certain that the movie is going to employ every cliche of antebellum melodrama. Read more

Sam Adams, AV Club: Viewed with fresh eyes, it can credibly be seen as revisionist history of a particularly savage kind. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: One of the most neglected and underrated Hollywood films of its era. Read more

Roger Ebert, RogerEbert.com: Mandingo is racist trash, obscene in its manipulation of human beings and feelings, and excruciating to sit through. Read more

Time Out: Good to see Fleischer returning to the kind of psycho-pathological thriller that he can handle so well. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: Embarrassing and crude. Read more