Grand Hotel Reviews

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

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If you're in the mood for a sentimental look back, by all means check in.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

A lesson on just how far motion pictures have come, and thank heavens for 1970s independent filmmaking or Hollywood might still resemble Louis Mayer's fantasy world.

Full Review | Original Score: 64/100

Goulding, a master of camp, shepherds rather than directs his famous cast through the series of adventures and misadventures.

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| Original Score: 3/5

It hasn't aged as well as some Oscar-winners, but neither is it as dated as, for example, Cimarron.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

They just don't build hotels like this anymore, they just don't write lines like that anymore.

| Original Score: 4/4

Grand Hotel was the first Garbo film I ever saw, and she enchanted me effortlessly, despite the presence of the rest of the powerful ensemble cast.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4

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.

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It's a Hollywood legend, a big, brassy melodrama overflowing with top stars.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

| Original Score: 4/5

Movie stars existed before Grand Hotel, and yet this picture seems to reinvent the whole concept right before your dazzled eyes.

Full Review | Original Score: B+

It's all very silly, the ultimate in Depression-era escapism: a piece of Hollywood magic that's impossibly romantic filled with people who are impossibly elegant, bantering and wisecracking constantly.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10

As helter-skelter as the setup might sound, as the narratives intertwine, one is never conscious of any episodic discontinuity but of a seamless, well-integrated flow of stories.

Full Review | Original Score: 7/10

What may come as a surprise is that, among this illustrious cast, it is Crawford who stands out.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

It comes with a grand reputation but by today's standards is outdated.

Full Review | Original Score: B-

Sometimes moving, sometimes funny, and almost always entertaining.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5

| Original Score: 4/5

An all-star cast give varying shades of good performances to highlight a fun and interesting story about the sordid affairs of the rich and not-so-famous.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

How thoroughly does Joan Crawford own Grand Hotel? She makes Greta Garbo superfluous.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4