US EditionRotten Tomatoes Critics Splatter Melania Trump Documentary ...
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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Reverence instead of reckoning: My review of the 'Melania' doc
“Melania” tracks America’s first lady for 20 days as she preps for her return to Washington before her husband Donald Trump’s second inauguration. This isn’t a documentary so much as a gauzy infomercial, writes Vinay Menon.
NEW YORK. Film critics are competing to see who can judge “Melania,” the film about the US first lady, the most mercilessly. While the main character’s husband, Donald Trump, calls it “a must-see film.”
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…
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