A diverting but ultimately unsatisfying 75 minutes, simultaneously too short and too cluttered to meaningfully explore all the fascinating implications it presents.

| Jun 5, 2021

Glossy, gleaming eye candy for those with a sweet tooth. It never feels like a full meal, though.

| Feb 22, 2021

Enlightening, erudite, but ultimately a little too ethereal.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 5, 2021

Shrewdly balances a careful juggling act between allowing us to celebrate the breathtaking edible artworks that the film documents, while simultaneously demanding we question the broader social, cultural and economic symbolism of such work

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 30, 2020

The film is frustratingly light on the palace's history. Not until the bitter end does Gabbert try to inject a little social commentary into what has largely been a de luxe cooking show.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 29, 2020

It's a lot to fit into 75 minutes and while there's plenty here that is interesting, it's a shame Gabbert didn't distil things down a bit more.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 22, 2020

Even ardent fans of The Great British Baking Show are likely to be disappointed by the anticlimactic nature of the film.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Dec 13, 2020

Primarily, though, you should show up for the mouth-watering food porn.

| Nov 17, 2020

Quite sumptuous visually and has some of the most amazing, decadent food you can even imagine.

| Sep 30, 2020

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.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 28, 2020

It's a mouthwatering and decadent behind the scenes look at culinary creativity.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 27, 2020

[It's] a thoroughly enjoyable look into the process of how this Feast of Versailles event was produced, as well as an insightful peek into the personalities of the chefs who created the event's masterful dessert art.

| Sep 27, 2020

... sometimes struggles to ramp up the kitchen drama, but the result is mostly a sumptuous treat for foodies and art aficionados alike.

| Sep 26, 2020

The Israeli-born Ottolenghi makes a genial and informative host, sprinkling the documentary with biographical information about himself, and we all can indulge a moment of happy fantasy...

| Sep 25, 2020

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.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 25, 2020

Where Ottolenghi and the Cakes of Versailles doesn't work as well is in the final act change in messaging...Still it's a fun movie

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 25, 2020

Highly informative doc.

| Sep 25, 2020

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.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Sep 25, 2020

There actually are parallels to be drawn between Versailles and the present day but Gabbert runs so far in the other direction from them as to appear tone deaf.

| Sep 25, 2020

At a time when we are truly questioning how the cultural sausage is made, and there's a wannabe Sun King set on installing himself in the White House in perpetuity, this confectionary seems a little stale and tasteless.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 25, 2020