"The Senegalese director Ousmane Sembene is routinely referred to as the father of postcolonial African cinema. In his new film, 'Moolaade,' the women of a small village in Burkina Faso rebel against female genital mutilation, a subject that may repel squeamish viewers. That would be a shame, not only because of the intrinsic importance of the subject, but because to skip "Moolaade" would be to miss an opportunity to experience the embracing, affirming, world-changing potential of humanist cinema at its finest," A.O. Scott reviews the film for the New York Times.