The Baxter Reviews
August 26, 2005
Allusions to '40s screwball and later offerings like Annie Hall have a mild resonance as The Baxter struggles to get its footing.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
August 26, 2005
The only way to even guess that humor is being attempted here is to monitor the comical faces mustered by the actors.
Original Score: 1/4
August 26, 2005
There are enough laughs in it if you're willing to settle.
Original Score: 2.5/4
August 25, 2005
Showalter pushes too far: Nerdiness, after all, can be only so attractive.
August 25, 2005
A Baxter of a movie: well meaning and mildly likable, but unlikely to sweep you off your feet.
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| Original Score: 2.5/5
August 25, 2005
Savvy viewers will see through this pastiche of shopworn goods.
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| Original Score: D
August 25, 2005
The Baxter is more than a little out of step in a summer peppered with crude or idiosyncratic wallflower romantics.
Original Score: .5/4
August 24, 2005
Sex doesn't figure into The Baxter, Showalter's strained romantic comedy; exaggerated arrested development does, of a guy kind that congratulates adult men on their dweebishness, assuming that dweebishness is of the hipster Brooklyn variety.
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| Original Score: C
August 23, 2005
The Baxter nods to better-behaved comedies of the past.
July 17, 2005
Chooses to embrace, rather than transcend via zany bawdiness, the schmaltzy genre within which it's operating.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4