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.

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.

Grand Hotel is superbly acted and finely produced.

...a promising setup that is, particularly at the outset, employed to woefully (and distressingly) underwhelming effect by Goulding...