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

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

Full Review | Feb 6, 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

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

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

In Adobo, ethnicity is not just the spice, but at the heart of more universal concerns.

| Jan 22, 2002

Even Tere's final schizoid moment can't dilute the hopefulness of Guillen's bittersweet saga.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jan 9, 2002