01/02/2026
DAMN, critics gave Melania one of the worst ratings on Rotten Tomatoes of ALL TIME. Enjoy the BRUTAL lowlights:
I’d rather rewatch January 6th. –Adam Olinger, Adam Does Movies (YouTube)
I don’t want to blow anyone’s minds here or throw you off your balance when I inform you that the Melania documentary, now in theaters, is terrible. –Kevin Fallon, The Daily Beast
To call Melania vapid would do a disservice to the plumes of florid v**e smoke that linger around British teenagers. –Nick Hilton, Independent (UK)
Ratner seems desperate to find action, but there is none. The pace is stultifying. –Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic
The fun’s not infectious and the guests are a nightmare, and two hours of Melania feels like pure, endless hell. –Xan Brooks, The Guardian
To say that Melania is a hagiography would be an insult to hagiographies. This is a film that fawns so lavishly over its subject that you feel downright unpatriotic not gushing over it. –Frank Scheck, The Hollywood Reporter
A documentary that never comes to life. It’s a portrait of the First Lady of the United States, but it’s so orchestrated and airbrushed and stage-managed that it barely rises to the level of a shameless infomercial. –Owen Gleiberman, Variety
…it’s impossible not to feel that the real purpose of this portrait is not insight, but rather distraction from the awfulness and corruption of her husband’s regime. –Karl Quinn, The Age (Australia)
Look, Leni Riefenstahl was a terrible person, but at least she had some style. Accused s*x pest confirmed hack Brett Ratner, meanwhile, captures the proceedings with all the flair of an HGTV show. –Liz Shannon Miller, Consequence
This is not a film concerned at all with the America of today; it is propaganda that serves the formation of a future non-democracy. –Simon Foster, Screen-Space
The significance of Melania isn’t the contents of the film so much as the fact that it happened. It’s not impossible that it might be evidence in an impeachment trial. And in any case, it is an important document in the decline of American public life. –Robert Hutton, The Critic
Not active, forceful propaganda in the school of Leni Riefenstahl’s films about the N***s. Melania: The Movie appears keener on inducing narcolepsy in its viewers than energising them into massed marching. Triumph of the Dull, perhaps. –Donald Clarke, Irish Times
This is what fascist vanity looks like when it collapses in public. No art. No truth. Just propaganda, ego, and authoritarian rot, and the right still wants applause.
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