NEW This Morning: "Melania" Box Office Expectations Rise Amid BRUTAL Reviews
Amy & T.J.
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4.4 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 31 January 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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“Melania” hit theaters nationwide on Friday and the reviews are in… and they aren’t kind. With no advance screeners before its opening, this is the first time we are hearing from the critics about what they think of Amazon’s 40 millions dollar documentary on the First Lady, and they are not shy about their disdain for the film. Meantime audience reviews are at an all time high which is mirroring early box office numbers that show “Melania” is on its way to exceeding expectations.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:14.0 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:15.1 | It is Saturday, January 30, first, and it is finally officially out. |
| 0:22.3 | Melania has hit movie theaters across the country. |
| 0:26.6 | The reviews are in. |
| 0:28.6 | Some of them are through the roof. |
| 0:31.2 | Others are below the belt. |
| 0:33.1 | But it has provided us one of the greatest disparities you will ever see on rotten tomatoes for a movie between what the audience thinks and what's the critics think. |
| 0:45.6 | And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. Roads, we keep an eye on, we do a lot of movie stuff, horror movie stuff. |
| 0:50.7 | We keep an eye on rotten tomatoes. You ever seen a discrepancy this large? |
| 0:54.0 | No, that's just it, period. Never. It's almost impossible. No. To have, it speaks to where our country is right now. |
| 1:02.0 | To have the critics score on Rotten Tomatoes be what it is and then have the audience score be what it is. |
| 1:10.0 | It actually makes me want to see this documentary |
| 1:12.6 | even more. I'm now, I think we woke up this morning, we saw the reviews, and we are officially |
| 1:18.1 | obsessed. We want to run, not walk to the theaters to see this movie. We're racing out to see it |
| 1:24.0 | actually this weekend. The only reason we aren't able to see it right now is because we're traveling. We happen to be on the road. So we're recording while we're on the road. But we are, first thing, Monday, when we get back, we're going to see this movie. Now, Robes, we talk about the discrepancy. Before we even give that number, doesn't it make, if you just take a moment, it makes sense that the numbers would be this off. |
| 1:44.8 | It's even, yes, it does. |
| 1:46.2 | Yes, but it's even more extreme than I thought than I imagined. |
| 1:50.9 | I was actually surprised at just how vicious these reviews are. |
| 1:57.7 | It's not, it's bad, it's boring. |
| 2:00.3 | These are, I like how you put it below the belt yeah i |
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