Bad reviews for "blockbuster motion picture of the year" Melania are mysteriously disappearing from the internet...

[PeaceWave]

It's too early to tell whether the same mysterious phenomenon will occur over at Rotten Tomatoes, but the first film sites permitting review of Melania have seen bad reviews wiped clean - almost as though by directive from above - though we don't know for sure, since nobody is providing a credible response to inquiries regarding why the bad reviews were swept away like so much popcorn off a theater floor...



https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/01/melania-documentary-reviews-deleted-letterboxd/

[FSogol]

1. Maybe no one saw it? The Independent reviewed it.

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

More at:

https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/films/reviews/melania-trump-movie-review-documentary-b2911108.html

[Initech]

11. They could force me to watch it strapped to a chair with my eyes taped open like in A Clockwork Orange...

And I'd still find some way to look away.

[Torchlight]

2. My guess is the movie will delete itself sooner rather than later

[newdeal2]

3. I have seen zero ratings on IMDB

Which is unusual since the picture is now publicly viewable. Until I remembered that Amazon owns IMDB.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

4. Critics were not allowed to review it before today. Some arent going to see it

[newdeal2]

8. I meant user submitted ratings

Not critics or media.

[underpants]

5. They didn't have pre-screenings for critics from what I've read

Which is almost unheard of I think.

[Wiz Imp]

7. Not remotely unheard of.

Studios have done that for decades with movies they knew would get trashed by the critics.

https://tropedia.fandom.com/wiki/Not_Screened_for_Critics

[underpants]

9. Okay I was wrong. Thanks.

[Wiz Imp]

6. That's ONE website.

No evidence that has happened at any other website.

[VMA131Marine]

10. Here's the single review on Rotten Tomatoes

It gets one star presumably because zero stars isn’t an option.

MELANIA (Dir: Brett Ratner) So, what’s the point? How does this superficial, wilfully deceitful reality readjustment serve the sociopathic ascension of Trump’s will (because everything has to)? Watching Melania get fitted for expensive clothes in gaudy rooms, or talk up how extravagantly staged she demands her balls be - and both happen a lot in Brett Ratner’s unrelentingly boring feature doc debut - only strengthen perceptions of her as a chilly, lifeless socialite wannabe. Every one of the 104 long minutes is in the service of grandiose affectation and cruel irony; when her scripted oration contains gems like, “We are all one humanity”, and Ratner cuts to her holding her husband’s hand…I mean, really? But then, the focus pivots from Melania to the pageantry of her husband’s inauguration, and Barron Trump gradually slinks into frame, then into close-up. And I realised then what the point was - Trump is tightening his family business’ grip on the White House beyond his years and before our eyes. MELANIA is not the story of the First Lady of American politics, but the imagining of the first homeland monarch in U.S. history. This is not a film concerned at all with the America of today; it is propaganda that serves the formation of a future non-democracy. ⭐️

https://screenspace.substack.com/p/the-animated-pics-vying-for-your