It's all too familiar, too rudimentary, and while the kitchen they're working in is top-of-the-line the meal they ultimately prepare isn't that much better than a Denny's breakfast left under the heat lamps a few minutes too many.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Aug 22, 2016

Burnt is, to be clear, not a good movie. It is in fact a pretty terrible movie.

| Jul 22, 2016

Mostly, I thought Burnt was ridiculous. And yet I cannot tell a lie. Its familiar beats, comely cast, and lively kitchen montages entertained me.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 12, 2016

Burnt is plated beautifully but lacks the complexity of flavor it so desperately wants to achieve.

| Nov 20, 2015

Anyone who makes an informed decision to watch Burnt might want to bring a bingo-card of dramatic cliches to tick off during the run-time.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 9, 2015

Burnt should have been a spicy treat. Instead, it comes and goes like so much fast food, leaving you hungry for a late-night DVD snack ...

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 8, 2015

Burnt wants to be viewed as a post-modern, emotionally hardcore odyssey; a foodie version of Birdman. At once too earnest and too glossily daft to measure up, it's actually closer in mood to an Eighties Agatha Christie 온라인카지노추천 special.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 6, 2015

Bradley Cooper and Sienna Miller, reunited on screen after last year's American Sniper, give committed and likeable performances but battle against the sheer contrivances and strange mix of ingredients in an over-egged screenplay.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 5, 2015

With a title that already reeks of failure, Bradley Cooper's turn in Burnt as a Michelin-starred chef making a comeback from coke-induced burnout is best avoided.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 5, 2015

Glossy, hollow disaster.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 5, 2015

The film takes no apparent joy in cooking itself: unforgivably for a film about food, there isn't a dish here that you'd actually want to eat.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Nov 5, 2015

Never comes to life, with each two-dimensional character mouthing platitudes designed to tell you what to think about them.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 3, 2015

A macho foodie fantasy with Cooper as a swaggering sex god in an apron. If this were a comedy, it would be brilliant.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 30, 2015

Lots of quick cuts and kitchen close-ups - of gas stoves, buttery saucepans and stock characters concentrating preciously on haute cuisine - and lots of unmoving melodrama.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 30, 2015

It is often fatal to a movie to have its characters more in thrall to the lead than the audience is.

| Original Score: C | Oct 29, 2015

Bound to inspire headlines full of tiresome kitchen wordplay: "half-baked," "underdone," "lacks seasoning." What it really is, though, is late for dinner.

| Oct 29, 2015

Unless you also want a tremendous side of ego and hearty helping of yelling, Burnt may be a dish to skip.

| Oct 29, 2015

"Burnt" is overcooked. If that sounds like a glib way to describe an entertainment about the comeback of a celebrity chef, it's also perfectly suited to a movie that wears its glossiness as a badge of honor.

| Oct 29, 2015

"Burnt" gets distracted by petty dramas. Without enough meat on the bones of this story, it's just not as satisfying as it could be, evaporating quickly into thin air.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 29, 2015

Burnt can't top off its plate with engaging characters or an exciting story. This confection fades almost immediately after it's over, leaving only a slight tingle on the tongue.

| Oct 29, 2015