Why Melania's hit documentary terrifies critics who desperately wanted her to fail

The movie "Melania," a documentary astir First Lady Melania Trump, made astir $8 cardinal connected its opening weekend, making it the highest-grossing documentary successful a decade. It’s a immense triumph for the archetypal woman and a crushing decision for those rooting against her.

The manager of "Melania," Brett Ratner, has antecedently helmed Hollywood blockbusters specified arsenic "Rush Hour" and "X-Men: The Last Stand." The information that Ratner is already an established marque successful Hollywood is noteworthy. During the archetypal Trump term, it would person been improbable that a Hollywood manager would instrumentality a accidental connected a documentary astir Melania Trump. Ratner inactive took a hazard making the film, due to the fact that Hollywood is traditionally lockstep connected authorities and speedy to chopped disconnected anyone who steps extracurricular the line. It’s easier to marque a movie similar this successful 2026 than it was successful 2017, but lone marginally so.

The movie is simply a soft-focus look astatine Melania Trump’s beingness arsenic archetypal lady, offering a glossy, feel-good glimpse into what radical usually don’t get to spot wrong the backstage archetypal lady’s life. Still, it wouldn’t person mattered what was successful the movie — the media would person hated it anyway.

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The reviews successful the mainstream property aren’t truthful overmuch scathing arsenic personal. Variety called the movie a "cheeseball infomercial of staggering inertia," portion The Guardian noted it was "dispiriting, deadly and unrevealing" and "unredeemable."

Melania Trump attends the satellite premiere of Amazon MGM's "Melania" astatine The Trump-Kennedy Center connected Jan. 29 successful Washington, D.C. (Taylor Hill/WireImage)

In the film, it’s existent we spot Melania successful her beauteous outfits and flawless makeup, but we besides spot her arsenic the pistillate down the man.

In 1 country successful the film, Melania advises the president to see the connection "unifier" successful his inaugural speech. On Jan. 20, arsenic helium said the words, "My proudest bequest volition beryllium that of a peacemaker and unifier. That’s what I privation to be: a peacemaker and a unifier," the president turned astir to look astatine his wife. Of course, Melania wants her hubby to beryllium some a peacemaker and a unifier. She is rooting for him to win due to the fact that it helps america all. A vicious media refuses to concede that she whitethorn privation what is champion for the country.

The movie portrays a matrimony wherever the archetypal woman cares astir her husband, worrying astir his information connected Inauguration Day and expressing alleviation erstwhile festivities are moved indoors. This portrayal flies successful the look of the predominant commentary claiming the matrimony is successful sanction only. Why would the archetypal woman attraction astir her husband’s information if she’s lone successful the national for glory oregon money? The New York Times counted however galore days Melania has spent successful the White House during this term, and Trump biographer Michael Wolff has claimed, without evidence, that they are separated. This movie answers those accusations and rumors directly, successful Melania’s ain words.

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In a 2018 interrogation with ABC, Melania was asked astir her matrimony and said, "I cognize radical similar to speculate and media similar to speculate astir our marriage. It's not ever pleasant, of course. But I cognize what is close and what is incorrect and what is existent oregon not true."

She does, and she shows it successful this film.

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On the reappraisal tract Rotten Tomatoes, the movie "Melania" is mounting different benignant of record: the largest discrepancy betwixt the scores of movie reviewers and filmgoers successful the site’s history. It makes sense, since astir of the reviewers went into the movie with a standing successful mind, whether oregon not they really enjoyed the movie. The radical who spent their wealth to spell ticker their archetypal woman connected the surface were going to beryllium much honest, adjacent if immoderate were swayed by their enthusiasm for their president.

The media has 3 much years of the Trump medication and Melania Trump. They tin halt having outbursts astir the archetypal woman and springiness her a just proceeding — thing much than fractional the state would commend. Or they tin proceed to descend into irrelevance, arsenic everyone knows adjacent their panning of a movie volition beryllium political. The prime is theirs.

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