Saturday, January 31, 2026

'Melania’ Review: A Tedious, Criminally Shallow Propaganda Puff Piece


https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/reviews/melania-documentary-review/

Although the film ends with a comically large number of chyrons claiming Melania Trump changed the office of the First Lady forever — by doing hitherto unthinkable things like [checks notes] meeting the victims of natural disasters — the film's laser-focus on fashion suggests that human interest is a side hustle. "Melania" concludes with a glamorous photo shoot in the White House because, according to Brett Ratner's movie, that's what the White House turned into: A gaudy two-dimensional backdrop that only exists to feed the ego of its current residents, who claim to care about other people, but spend all their time focusing on how good they look while making those claims. 

Meanwhile, innocent people are being shot and killed in public by these people's secret police. They could be doing something about that, but they'd rather sell tickets so you can get a good look at their shoes and hear them sing in the back seat of their limousines. Now that's cinema. Unfortunately.


_- Steve

'Melania' Review: A Cheeseball Infomercial of Straggering Inertia

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/melania-review-melania-trump-brett-ratner-1236645379/




_- Steve