104 min | PG | January 30, 2026 | Amazon MGM Studios
A vanity project that mistakes access for insight. The most revealing thing about it is that no one in Trump’s orbit had the courage to say this was a bad idea.
I went in with an open mind. Art shows up in unexpected places. This is not one of those places.
The premise is twenty days of “unprecedented access” leading up to the 2025 inauguration. What you get is footage of Melania Trump walking through rooms, approving flower arrangements, and offering nothing resembling a thought or feeling about anything. Brett Ratner points the camera at her and waits for something to happen. Nothing does.
The baffling part is not that the movie exists. Rich and powerful people make vanity projects all the time. The baffling part is that apparently no one in the entire orbit of the first couple could tell them this would land with a thud. That level of insulation from reality is genuinely unsettling. When you’re so removed from normal life that you think people want to watch you pick table linens for 104 minutes, something has gone wrong.
There’s no story here. No conflict. No revelation. No moment where you learn anything about who this person is or what she thinks about anything. It’s a glossy press release stretched to feature length. The access that was supposed to be the selling point reveals only that there’s nothing to reveal. Or nothing they’re willing to show.
The real horror isn’t that someone made this. It’s imagining the room where everyone nodded along and said this was a great idea.