{"id":2258763,"date":"2026-01-30T21:17:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T21:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2258763"},"modified":"2026-01-30T21:17:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T21:17:27","slug":"the-melania-reviews-are-out-and-theyre-friggin-brutal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-melania-reviews-are-out-and-theyre-friggin-brutal\/","title":{"rendered":"The “Melania” Reviews Are Out And They’re Friggin’ Brutal"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The “Melania” Reviews Are Out And They’re Friggin’ Brutal<\/p>\n
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The reviews are out for Melania,<\/i> and they are BRUTAL.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Guardian gave it<\/a> 1\/5 stars, saying, “two hours of Melania<\/i> feels like pure, endless hell.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Critic Xan Brooks says<\/a>, “It\u2019s dispiriting, it\u2019s deadly and it\u2019s spectacularly unrevealing.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Independent’s Nick Hilton also gave it<\/a> 1\/5 stars, writing, “First Lady is a preening, scowling void of pure nothingness in this ghastly bit of propaganda.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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And compares it to vape smoke from British teens: “To call Melania vapid would do a disservice to the plumes of florid vape smoke that linger around British teenagers.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Variety chief correspondent Daniel D’Addario says<\/a>, “Melania<\/i> is primarily a film about a woman walking into and out of rooms.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Adding, “Put the film on the pile with Trump University and Trump Steaks and the law-firm and university shakedowns and all the other money-spinning endeavors as evidence of this family’s eagerness to make a buck.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Daily Beast’s Kevin Fallon calls it<\/a> an “unbelievable abomination of filmmaking.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He asks, “Why was no one standing outside the cinema where I made the brave decision to attend the first opening-day screening of the Melania documentary, offering me a selection of ‘I Survived the Melania Movie’ novelty t-shirts for purchase? Or, perhaps, a lil\u2019 mug?”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The Decider’s Jesse Hassenger calls it<\/a>, “A disingenuous documentary that misfires by mistaking the first lady’s fame for star quality.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Adding “It\u2019s just a bunch of footage.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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He says, “Even diehard Trump fans might be bored by the documentary about the first lady.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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And lastly, BuzzFeed’s (very own) Natasha Jokic calls it<\/a> “the worst movie I’ve ever seen.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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This part sums it up best: “Last night, I left an empty chickpea can on my counter. When I came back 30 minutes later, small, black bugs had swarmed the tin and were crawling over my sink. I would rather relive that moment a hundred times over than have to watch another minute of the movie Melania<\/i>.”<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.buzzfeed.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The “Melania” Reviews Are Out And They’re Friggin’ Brutal The reviews are out for Melania, and they are BRUTAL. The Guardian gave it 1\/5 stars, saying, “two hours of Melania feels like pure, endless hell.” Critic Xan Brooks says, “It\u2019s dispiriting, it\u2019s deadly and it\u2019s spectacularly unrevealing.” The Independent’s Nick Hilton also gave it 1\/5 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2258764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[29453],"class_list":["post-2258763","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-timely"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/The-Melania-Reviews-Are-Out-And-Theyre-Friggin-Brutal.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258763","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2258763"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258763\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2258765,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2258763\/revisions\/2258765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2258764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2258763"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2258763"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2258763"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}