Its message is powerful, along with the stellar performances by the entire ensemble cast.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Feb 6, 2025

Lorraine Hansberry’s brilliant Broadway play has been transferred to the motion picture screen with all of its earthy drama and humor intact -- a rare feat in moviemaking.

| Jan 17, 2024

It's a great, great show.

| Aug 24, 2022

A powerful drama about basically decent, ordinary, likeable people.

| Aug 23, 2022

Has everything to recommend it from intelligent dialog to ingenious photography; from honest and exciting characterization to sly artful fun.

| Aug 23, 2022

A fine human drama, combining solid entertainment values with timely social commentary.

| Aug 23, 2022

A Raisin in The Sun is humanity-conscious as well as race conscious.

| Aug 23, 2022

Dramatically superior... gains truly in the deepened sympathy with which Poitier infuses his role.

| Aug 23, 2022

Provides a wealth of entertainment and a great deal to think about. This is a difficult combination to beat.

| Aug 23, 2022

So satisfying, so intensely moving, and so sensitively performed.

| Aug 23, 2022

A powerful picture alternately funny, angry, explosive, stunning and pathetic, but always honest and with the unmistakable ring of authenticity in its people and its dialog.

| Aug 23, 2022

It is a wonderful, warm comprehension of a people's humor, strength and dignity under a multitude of sad and silly burdens. It should generate love, not hate.

| Aug 23, 2022

Looks tenderly and lovingly at... family's sorrow's, fun and hope.

| Aug 23, 2022

A skillful mixture of power and pathos and bright, bubbling humor, this film is unquestionably one of the year's finest.

| Aug 23, 2022

Even as a photographed play, the work carries unusual emotional impact... I strongly recommend it for its story value alone.

| Aug 23, 2022

Hansberry's script is wonderfully done. It's fierce and cutting, but tender and eloquent to a point of poetry.

| Aug 23, 2022

As potent on film as in stage version.

| Aug 23, 2022

An equally affecting film melodrama larded with warm humor.

| Aug 23, 2022

Just bursting with life — even though it’s trapped in the talky limitations of the stage. It’s as winning as the original Broadway hit.

| Aug 23, 2022

Excellent... has lost none of its qualities — humor, pathos, suspense, human dignity.

| Aug 23, 2022