despite Cooper's best efforts, screenwriter Knight and director John Wells (August: Osage County) aren't able to make a convincing argument for why we should care about Adam Jones
a moody-foodie therapy session that follows an increasingly tidy narrative recipe as it sets this one-man kitchen nightmare on a long road to redemption
"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
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