The Baxter Critic Reviews

The Baxter is just an OK movie, but Showalter's performance is the gem to take from it.Read the full review

A self-consciously arch work of hipsterism that's more styled than funny.Read the full review

A tender love story and a dead-on lampoon of the genre, but its main drawback is that Showalter is egregiously miscast in the title role.Read the full review

In the end, The Baxter is a Baxter of a movie: well meaning and mildly likable, but unlikely to sweep you off your feet.Read the full review

The problem with The Baxter is right there at the center of the movie, and maybe it is unavoidable: Showalter makes too good of a baxter. He deserves to be dumped.Read the full review

That's ultimately the film's fatal flaw: it bumps Showalter's Baxter up to the role of the romantic lead without giving him an equivalent increase in complexity or depth.Read the full review

May find a following among those who stand in awe of the names Sandler, Ferrell and Spade. But Showalter pushes too far: Nerdiness, after all, can be only so attractive.Read the full review

A wheel-spinner. The more the film stresses and strains to be funny, the unfunnier it gets.Read the full review

"The Station Agent's" Peter Dinklage provides diversion as a gay wedding planner.Read the full review