‘Melania’ Review: A Disingenuous Documentary That Misfires By Mistaking The First Lady’s Fame For Star Quality
By Jesse Hassenger @rockmarooned
Published Jan. 30, 2026, 3:00 p.m. ET

Melania review: Shameless propaganda that could put you to sleep
If this supposed documentary weren’t about what it’s actually about, it could at times play as an unlikely meditation aid
Donald Clarke
Sat Jan 31 2026 – 07:25

‘Melania’ Review: A Tedious, Criminally Shallow Propaganda Puff Piece
The “Rush Hour” director returns with a shameful cinematic suck-up masquerading as a real documentary
William Bibbiani
January 30, 2026 @ 9:17 PM

‘Melania’ Review
The first lady’s reality show.
Sonny Bunch
Jan 31, 2026

An ego trip to the movies
Melania is a fascinatingly terrible film
By Robert Hutton
31 January, 2026

‘Melania’ Review: Brett Ratner’s Melania Trump Documentary Is an Unabashed, Fly-on-the-Gilded-Wall Fawn Job
The ‘Rush Hour’ director’s film offers an up-close and not-so-personal portrait of the first lady during the few weeks before President Trump’s second inauguration.
By Frank Scheck
January 30, 2026 12:46pm

Trust Me, ‘Melania’ Is an Unbelievable Abomination of Filmmaking
We bravely watched the new documentary and lived to tell the tale.
Kevin Fallon
Updated Jan. 30 2026 7:58PM EST

Jan 30, 2026 11:49am PT
‘Melania’ Review: Brett Ratner’s First Lady Documentary Is a Cheeseball Infomercial of Staggering Inertia
There’s no drama to a film that should have been called “Day of the Living Tradwife.”
By Owen Gleiberman

Melania review – First Lady is a preening, scowling void of pure nothingness in this ghastly bit of propaganda
Hitting cinemas as the streets of America remain filled with the angry and grieving, the vulgar, gilded lifestyle of the Trumps makes them look like Marie Antoinette skulking in her cake-filled chateau
Nick Hilton
Friday 30 January 2026 11:48 EST

You get the picture.