Creaky in spots, the film still triumphs due to its neatly interwoven plotlines, strong characterizations by the leads, and the expected MGM gloss.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Feb 22, 2025

One of the first star-studded episodic dramas, Grand Hotel is headlined by silver screen legends Greta Garbo and John Barrymore.

| Jun 27, 2023

Grand Hotel is a film which will do a lot of good to the prestige of the cinema industry.

| Jun 13, 2023

Grand Hotel, from many points of view, is a masterpiece of melodrama. It is not one film, but several, and it is certainly one of the most brilliant talkies which Hollywood has yet sent us.

| Jun 13, 2023

It has presented a cast, difficult, if not impossible, to beat. Of a discreet and correct modesty, in form and substance. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jun 13, 2023

One of the most eminently satisfying photoplays that has ever been our privilege to see.

| Jun 6, 2023

Grand Hotel imposes itself, excites, convinces, and entertains... it's a perfect movie. [Full review in Spanish]

| Jun 6, 2023

Garbo! John Barrymore! Lionel Barrymore! Joan Crawford! Wallace Beery! Lewis Stone! Jean Hersholt! A real all star cast. And each one superbly masterful of the demands of his role.

| Jun 6, 2023

In it Joan Crawford becomes the greatest vamp of the virile type on the screen, Greta Garbo a figure of real tragedy, and Wallace Beery has never done better.

| Jun 6, 2023

Undoubtedly one of the greatest achievements in film history.

| Jun 6, 2023

Joan Crawford may surprise you by running a dead heat with the great Garbo for premiere feminine honors.

| Jun 6, 2023

You may argue about who deserves the most praise and not get anywhere, for the picture, as a whole, steals the show. It is produced on a scale of grandeur that the stage couldn't touch.

| Jun 6, 2023

With this lineup of Metro's marquee names any picture would draw. But in this particular case of Grand Hotel, additionally there's absorbing story material, expert performances, understanding direction and a swank production.

| Jun 6, 2023

Although overlong and underwhelming, it's notable as one of the first big ensemble pieces (and surely the most famous of the time).

| Original Score: 2/10 | Jul 27, 2020

Even all this brilliance of acting and even the remarkable ingenuity of the production cannot disguise the simple artifice of the whole construction, which seems all the more obvious in a plotless story designed to show a section of life.

| Feb 28, 2020

Grand Hotel is superbly acted and finely produced.

| Jan 25, 2020

[Grand Hotel] may be put high up on the list of real screen achievements.

| Jan 24, 2020

In Grand Hotel one finds the perfection of realistic acting. This was to be expected, for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer has assembled in this production the most notable cast which has ever appeared In any one film.

| Jan 24, 2020

There is every reason to reject Grand Hotel as an elaborate chunk of artifice... But if you want to see what screen glamour used to be, and what, originally, "stars" were, this is perhaps the best example of all time.

| Jan 3, 2018

A tremendously sturdy, thoroughly unimaginative, and massively entrancing sample of the early-'30s Hollywood machine doing everything exactly right.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 4, 2015