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Upon its release in 1975, critical response was mixed although box office was strong.
Roger Ebert despised the film and gave it a "zero star" rating.
Richard Schickel of TIME found the film boring and cliche-ridden.
The movie critic Robin Wood was enthusiastic about the film, calling it “the greatest film about race ever made in Hollywood”.
Quentin Tarantino has cited Mandingo as one of only two instances "in the last twenty years [that] a major studio made a full-on, gigantic, big-budget exploitation movie", comparing it to Showgirls.
In Leonard Maltin's annual publication "TV Movies," the film is ranked as a "BOMB" and dismissed with the word "Stinko!".
Some prominent critics hail the film, including the New York Times columnist Dave Kehr, who called it "a thinly veiled Holocaust film that spares none of its protagonists", further describing it as "Fleischer’s last great crime film, in which the role of the faceless killer is played by an entire social system."

kaut kur komentāros arī lasīju, ka šī ir viena no labākajām 70to gadu filmām, un kāpēc lai tā nebūtu. es šokā. nedēļas beigās brauks ciemos indāns un piņķis, būs ko rādīt. jau dzirdu piņķa komentārus, jo tur ir daudz pliku pupu un visāda fiziska ekšena. varbūt tā filma aizmirsta un nenovērtēta dēļ neērtā satura, un nez, vai mūsdienās dēļ cenzūras tādu vispār būtu iespējams uzfilmēt.