The ultimate answer has to do with family, and if Other People starts to slip into mawkishness, it's primarily because the movie doesn't quite earn that final resolution. (markreviewsmovies.com)
There's no place for mawkishness in a film like this; such elements might have worked had the movie claimed to be a realistic portrayal of young adults, but when you have a character as outrageous as Stifler, that's clearly not the case. (reelfilm.com)
... a small - scale movie set in modern Beijing that comes right up to the brink of mawkishness and is saved only by some residual inscrutability in the narrative. (rottentomatoes.com)