Burnt
Weinstein Company, The | Release Date: October 30, 2015 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
42
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 28 Critic Reviews
Positive:
3
Mixed:
20
Negative:
5
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
75
ObserverRex ReedOct 28, 2015
A mildly entertaining but well acted, sumptuously photographed and smartly written comedy with dark undertones about culinary addiction that can only be called “delicious.” See it and then check your cholesterol. Read full review
63
St. Louis Post-DispatchJody MitoriOct 29, 2015
With such a strong cast, the film has the right ingredients but it doesn’t quite make a perfect meal. Read full review
63
Washington PostStephanie MerryOct 29, 2015
It’s not pretty, but it captures something that few cooking movies do: reality. Read full review
60
New Orleans Times-PicayuneMike ScottOct 29, 2015
An imperfectly executed but still perfectly enjoyable film. Read full review
58
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyOct 29, 2015
Cooper’s charm, imposing post-American Sniper physique, and proficient French carry the movie, propped up by a very strong supporting cast... whose roles mostly consist of fascinated or exasperated reaction shots. It just doesn’t carry the movie anywhere interesting. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatyOct 28, 2015
Just when you think you know where Burnt is headed, there’s an underhanded twist about halfway in. And it’s almost enough to set the movie right. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyOct 29, 2015
Since John Wells is a director of some conscience and screenwriter Steven Knight is in fact capable of first-rate work, Burnt packs some minor surprises and attractive details along its way. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalleOct 29, 2015
The real issue is that everything about Adam’s journey feels half digested and tossed back up. We’ve seen it before. It was better the first time. Read full review
50
The New York TimesNeil GenzlingerOct 29, 2015
What follows is a decently structured story of personal demons and culinary competition, with a couple of nice twists thrown in, but it’s built with materials that at this point in the life cycle of this genre are mighty shopworn. Read full review
50
Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranOct 29, 2015
Burnt is mildly diverting. Read full review
50
Boston GlobeTom RussoOct 29, 2015
Cooper swaggers as convincingly as always, the food-prep montages are mesmerizing, and we even get a couple of solid twists and an education on the sous-vide trend. Read full review
50
Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsOct 29, 2015
Director John Wells dices the action, even the simplest conversation, into five harried shots when one would suffice. The many food-prep montages are cut and paced to the same numbing rhythm. Read full review
50
Chicago Sun-TimesRichard RoeperOct 29, 2015
As an often cliché-riddled tale of redemption on the big screen, Burnt is the equivalent of a sleek, well-lit, trendy restaurant serving up a mildly creative dishes on an otherwise predictable menu. Read full review
50
Arizona RepublicBill GoodykoontzOct 29, 2015
The food, it must be said, is beautiful. (Mario Batali and Marcus Wareing were consultants on the film.) And Cooper, despite the shortcomings of the role as written, goes all in. So does Miller. This should be a better movie than it is. Read full review
50
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesOct 29, 2015
There’s never any doubt that redemption is the end-game for Jones, but the claim for his saving is weak sauce; the case against him has been too emphatically, if unintentionally, argued. Read full review
50
Movie NationRoger MooreOct 28, 2015
Burnt isn’t a bad movie, but the melodrama is overwrought and overdone, the romance warmed over and the “Cocktail” formula shaken, stirred and utterly played. Read full review
50
The PlaylistKevin JagernauthOct 21, 2015
The film’s haphazard construction is made all the more frustrating because somewhere in this material is a much more resonant picture. Read full review
50
The Hollywood ReporterJon FroschOct 21, 2015
Cooper can do this kind of arrogant-but-irresistible golden boy shtick in his sleep, but that doesn't make it any less pleasurable to watch. Flashing his baby blues and a fiery temper, the actor gives a fully engaged performance that almost makes us want to forgive the movie’s laziness. Almost. Read full review
50
Screen DailyTim GriersonOct 21, 2015
Every thoughtful story beat and every well-observed character moment happens with such predictability and slick professionalism that the whole project seems smothered in bland sweetness. Read full review
42
IndieWireEric KohnOct 21, 2015
Burnt deals less with the food itself than the way it drives Adam to the brink of insanity. Yet it falls short of generating any real urgency surrounding that situation. Read full review
40
EmpireAngie ErrigoNov 9, 2015
A tasteless concoction - one gay character is particularly misjudged - that's instantly forgettable. Read full review
40
Village VoiceStephanie ZacharekOct 28, 2015
The movie gets duller and less focused as it wears on. Read full review
40
VarietyJustin ChangOct 21, 2015
Although John Wells’ dramedy is energized by its mouth-watering montages and an unsurprisingly fierce lead turn from Cooper, Steven Knight’s script pours on the acid but holds the depth, forcing its fine actors (including Sienna Miller and Daniel Bruhl) to function less as an ensemble than as a motley sort of intervention group. Read full review
38
New York PostKyle SmithOct 29, 2015
Both Adam and the stakes are so low, it’s like watching 100 minutes of a slug trying to crawl over a twig. Read full review
35
TheWrapAlonso DuraldeOct 21, 2015
Burnt ultimately feels like those sous-vide bags that Adam finds so worthy of mockery: trapped in plastic, with the air sucked out of it. Read full review
25
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Brad WheelerOct 29, 2015
Although rich in cast, the bad-boy-chef dramedy Burnt is unremarkable otherwise. Read full review
25
Rolling StonePeter TraversOct 28, 2015
A cheerless and unappetizing plate of piffle that deserves to be smashed against a wall or at least sent back to the kitchen. Read full review
25
Slant MagazineElise NakhnikianOct 22, 2015
Everything in the by-the-numbers script signals that Adam must transform himself from and abusive tyrant in the kitchen to the head of a loving and fully functional family. Read full review
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