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American Adobo
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30 out of 100

Generally unfavorable - based on 10 Critics

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 10
  3. Negative: 6 out of 10
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  1. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Wendy Lee
    50
    Adobo doesn't exoticize the culture so much as leaven it with a sense of ordinariness.
  2. Los Angeles Times
    Reviewed by: Kevin Thomas
    50
    An intimate, good-humored ethnic comedy like numerous others but cuts deeper than expected.
  3. Washington Post
    Reviewed by: Michael O'Sullivan
    50
    Tries to cram too many ingredients into one small pot.
  4. New Times (L.A.)
    Reviewed by: Andy Klein
    40
    The film is reasonably entertaining, though it begins to drag two-thirds through, when the melodramatic aspects start to overtake the comedy.
  5. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Jack Mathews
    38
    Offers traditional cinematic gab about marital status, sexual orientation, nationality and degree of fulfillment.
  6. New York Post
    Reviewed by: Megan Turner
    38
    Marinated in clichés and mawkish dialogue.
  7. TV Guide
    Reviewed by: Maitland McDonagh
    30
    Though clearly well-intentioned, this cross-cultural soap opera is painfully formulaic and stilted.
  8. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Stephen Holden
    30
    As the film loses its grip on its multiple stories, the title begins to suggest an overheated stew bubbling out of its pot. By the end of the film, the intersecting dramas and histrionic performances have spilled all over the floor, so to speak.
  9. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Edward Guthmann
    25
    The movie is stiff and schmaltzy and clumsily directed.
  10. L.A. Weekly
    Reviewed by: Paul Malcolm
    20
    The film's failings are only highlighted by the fact that while, occasionally, we're granted real glimpses of interior lives, largely emanating from de Leon, Davao and Picache, those lives are never given the chance to take shape.
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