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

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

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

Each and every performer in the screened "Grand Hotel" does a remarkable piece of work. To us, Garbo is the supreme of magnificence.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Feb 17, 2015

As it is, the hotel is well filled.

| Feb 17, 2009

Creaky, aged and utterly enchanting.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 20, 2008

A commercial picture of high box office potential, first by assembling the most impressive aggregation so far of strictly Bradstreet screen names, and then by filming the play practically unaltered in form.

| Jan 29, 2008

Less effective as a movie than as a dazzling parade of star iconography.

| Dec 12, 2006

The Nashville of its day, Grand Hotel's reputation has outgrown its actual quality.

| Jun 24, 2006

It is a production thoroughly worthy of all the talk it has created and the several motion-picture luminaries deserve to feel very proud of their performances, particularly Greta Garbo and Lionel Barrymore.

| May 20, 2003