Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles

"A nuanced look at human achievement that invites a larger conversation about the art it presents and the waste it produces."

"Frustratingly light on the palace's history."

"Anticlimactic..."

"More visually than intellectually edifying."

"The results are eye-popping, sometimes almost confoundingly so."

"Evolves into a complex exploration of the symbiotic relationship between money and art, and questions what the visibility of that conspicuous consumption could portend."

"In its attempt to cram too many narratives and subjects into too short of a running time, it ends up coming across as both overstuffed and oddly undernourished."

"A more nuanced documentary — one that didn’t just feel like evidence of an event that happened at a museum, but a work of art unto itself — might have made a meal out of such ideas, rather than just offering them for dessert."

"For such a sweet film, Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles evolves into a complex exploration of the symbiotic relationship between money and art, and questions what the visibility of that conspicuous consumption could portend."