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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 50
    Washington Post | Michael O'Sullivan

    Tries to cram too many ingredients into one small pot. Read full review

  • 50
    Village Voice |

    Adobo doesn't exoticize the culture so much as leaven it with a sense of ordinariness. Read full review

  • 50
    Los Angeles Times | Kevin Thomas

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

  • 40
    New Times (L.A.) | Andy Klein

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

  • 38
    New York Post |

    Marinated in clichés and mawkish dialogue. Read full review

  • 38
    New York Daily News | Jack Mathews

    Offers traditional cinematic gab about marital status, sexual orientation, nationality and degree of fulfillment. Read full review

  • 30
    TV Guide | Maitland McDonagh

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

  • 30
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

    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. Read full review

  • 25
    San Francisco Chronicle | Edward Guthmann

    The movie is stiff and schmaltzy and clumsily directed. Read full review

  • 20
    L.A. Weekly | Paul Malcolm

    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. Read full review

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