What is the Metascore for Raise the Red Lantern?

Raise the Red Lantern has a Metascore of 93 out of 100 on Celluloid.

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Official theatrical poster for Raise the Red Lantern (1991)

Orion Classics

Drama

Raise the Red Lantern

Q: Is Raise the Red Lantern worth watching?

Raise the Red Lantern (1991) has a Celluloid Score of 89%, averaged across critic reviews, audience ratings, Metascore, Letterboxd, and IMDb. It comes recommended overall. Directed by Zhang Yimou.

Directed by Zhang Yimou · 1991

Quick Verdict

Raise the Red Lantern (1991) has a 89% Celluloid Score — our average across critic reviews, audience ratings, Metascore, Letterboxd, and IMDb. Recommended — recommended by most critics and audiences.

89%

Celluloid Score Recommended

Averaged from 5 sources

96% Critic Score

91% Audience

93 Metascore

★★★★☆ Letterboxd 4.2

8.1 IMDb /10

Runtime: 2h 5m
Cast: Gong Li , Ma Jingwu , He Caifei

Is Raise the Red Lantern worth watching?

Yes — Raise the Red Lantern earns a 89% Celluloid Score. Recommended — recommended by most critics and audiences.

Critics Consensus

Zhang Yimou's claustrophobic palace drama exposes patriarchy with formal beauty and icy precision.
Celluloid Critics Consensus

Critics and audiences are closely aligned on this one.

What is Raise the Red Lantern about?

A young woman becomes the fourth wife of a wealthy lord and discovers brutal competition among concubines in 1920s China.

Critic Reviews

critic Raise the Red Lantern

Raise the Red Lantern (1991) Review: A Chinese Classic

★★★★½ 4.5/5

Zhang Yimou's Raise the Red Lantern (1991) endures as a defining drama landmark from China, with scores that still shape how audiences discover cinema from the region.

Essential viewing — a certified classic.