 Kevin Thomas of Los Angeles Times said, "There's such a rich sense of the fullness of life in "Moolaadé" that it sustains those passages that are truly and necessarily harrowing".Melissa Levine of Dallas Observer said "It's not easy to pull off a good morality tale.That's why Moolaad, the new film from 81-year-old Senegalese writer-director Ousmane Sembene, feels like such an exceptional success.