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Critics gave Melania Trump’s documentary a 9% Rotten Tomatoes score, calling it orchestrated and overly flattering, with few new insights into her life.
- On Jan. 30, 2026, the documentary Melania opened in theaters after a Thursday premiere at the renamed Trump-Kennedy Center; it is Muse Films' first project directed by Brett Ratner.
- Critical reviews called the film orchestrated, airbrushed, and propagandistic, with some critics deeming it inert and cynical rather than revealing.
- USA TODAY's Brian Truitt said `Because she doesn't address the camera, 'Melania' suffers from a brutal disconnect`, while the London Evening Standard and other outlets gave mixed notices, with Melanie McDonagh writing `What we see is what she wants us to see`.
- Rotten Tomatoes shows the film at 9 percent, and Amazon MGM Studios acquired it in a reported $40,000,000 deal amid $75,000,000 spent on purchase and marketing.
- Critics also highlighted the timing and Apple CEO Tim Cook's attendance amid backlash, as Ratner returned to features after 2014 amid sexual-harassment allegations he denied with no criminal charges.
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Melania Trump's film, the first lady of the United States, had only five attendees at its premiere in Mexico; the world-wide box office had similar results.Diverse international cinemas have pointed to the bad reception of the documentary “Melania”, which in Rotten Tomatoes reached an 11% approval in criticism. They reveal that Melania Trump's film had on average five attendees at its premiere in MexicoThe Melania Trump film was released in Mexi…
'Scowling void of pure nothingness': Read the vicious Melania reviews
Critics have weighed in on Amazon MGM Studios’ documentary about first lady Melania Trump, and their verdicts are overwhelmingly negative.According to review aggregation website Metacritic, Melania—which Amazon paid $40 million to acquire and $35 million to market—so far has received a collective sc...
'A Disgrace': Critics Are Absolutely Eviscerating Melania's $75M 'Propaganda' Film
The first wave of reviews for Melania — the glossy, big-money documentary Amazon MGM Studios just dumped into theaters — is rolling in, and they’re brutal. Marketed as an “intimate chronicle” of Melania Trump’s life as First Lady, the film delivers, according to early critics, something closer to a two-hour hostage situation — minus the intrigue. Released without press screenings after an invite-only premiere in Washington, D.C., the film is onl…
The documentary "Melania" is not well received by many critics. Film connoisseurs tear up the film on the net and draw bitterly evil comparisons. An author sees in the film a diversion of Trump's "regime".
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