Adobo is spiced up by a welcoming, authentic bicultural flavor.

| May 25, 2022

A sophomoric exploration of 'life problems' most people solved long ago -- or at least got tired of hearing people kvetch about.

| Oct 21, 2002

Guillen rarely gets beneath the surface of things. She lists ingredients, but never mixes and stirs.

| Oct 3, 2002

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 15, 2002

While American Adobo has its heart (and its palate) in the right place, its brain is a little scattered -- ditsy, even.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jun 14, 2002

American Adobo is entertaining and it's filled with fine performances from the ensemble cast.

| Original Score: B- | May 3, 2002

The script by Vincent R. Nebrida ... tries to cram too many ingredients into one small pot.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Apr 12, 2002

Mushes the college-friends genre (The Big Chill) together with the contrivances and overwrought emotion of soap operas.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Mar 22, 2002

It sticks rigidly to the paradigm, rarely permitting its characters more than two obvious dimensions and repeatedly placing them in contrived, well-worn situations.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 8, 2002

Tries to add some spice to its quirky sentiments but the taste is all too familiar.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Feb 8, 2002

A big meal of cliches that the talented cast generally chokes on.

Full Review | Feb 6, 2002

I'm not sure which is worse: the poor acting by the ensemble cast, the flat dialogue by Vincent R. Nebrida or the gutless direction by Laurice Guillen.

| Feb 3, 2002

Stiff and schmaltzy and clumsily directed.

| Feb 1, 2002

An intimate, good-humored ethnic comedy like numerous others but cuts deeper than expected.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Feb 1, 2002

The film is reasonably entertaining, though it begins to drag two-thirds through, when the melodramatic aspects start to overtake the comedy.

Full Review | Jan 31, 2002

Really is a pan-American movie, with moments of genuine insight into the urban heart.

Full Review | Jan 25, 2002

Marinated in clichs and mawkish dialogue.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 25, 2002

Too much clunky dialog in mawkish situations dissolve this flick into shrill histrionics.

| Jan 25, 2002

When not wallowing in its characters' frustrations, the movie is busy contriving false, sitcom-worthy solutions to their problems.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/5 | Jan 24, 2002

Though clearly well-intentioned, this cross-cultural soap opera is painfully formulaic and stilted.

| Jan 24, 2002