The Baxter

 You could certainly give this little slice of mediocrity a miss. I'm just saying. Although the female lead is way cute, and you spend the moving pulling for her, the actual main character, the guy who never gets the girl, doesn't ever find that fine line between unattractive and eccentric. I had a difficult time even hoping he'd succeed, which makes for a difficult viewing experience. While his unattractiveness was actually physical, mostly it was his personality that bothered me. I prefer nerds to geeks.

Elliot (Michael Showalter) does have a steady fiancee through most of the film, but her acting truly lacks realism. That lack might make sense if we assume that the film means to turn the "showy" romance into the background and focus on the minor characters of what might otherwise be a typical rom-com. In that sense, it works well. All the really flashy, showy actors play minor parts while the sort-of-off actors play main characters (once again, with the exception of the main girl, the eventual love interest). Unfortunately, turning an already stale rom-com inside-out may have its appeal to the down-with-love crowd, but more interesting would be to turn real life upside-down, which isn't really possible, seeing that every possible combination has probably already been struck somewhere in reality.

Anyway, while this film had some amusing moments and a few strong draws, I'd side with the critics on this one and recommend that you go ahead and skip to the next film on your list.