Plan B Forum

DAMN, critics gave Melania one of the worst ratings on Rotten Tomatoes of ALL TIME [12%]. 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 vape 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 sex 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 Nazis. 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

MajGenl.Meade wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 02, 2026 11:51 am

Cripes, even more competition for irrelevant shit . . . first Melania and now the Grammys . . . is there no end?

Someday all the racists will be in the ground, gone down like all the fascists. I have to believe it to get through the days.

Big RR wrote: ↑

Mon Feb 02, 2026 3:21 pm

The Grammys? I can take or leave them, but see them no less more relevant than other award shows.