Critics Scoreboard
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
Average Critic Score:
79
(35 sources)
79
(35 sources)
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Washington Post
A guaranteed pleasure for anyone who ever loved pop music, owned a record collection or suffered in love Read Full Review » -
100
Philadelphia Inquirer
With its knowing take on men, messed-up romance and music, is like one long, hook-filled pop song for the eyes. Read Full Review » -
100
Portland Oregonian
It's so spry and lively and warm that you want to dance to it. Read Full Review » -
90
Film.com
The extent to which Black and Louiso help make this film terribly witty and caustic and worth every minute of its almost two-hour running time is immeasurable. Read Full Review » -
90
The New York Times
Witty, exquisitely fine-tuned screen adaptation of Nick Hornby's 1995 novel Read Full Review » -
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Dallas Observer
The film is so much like the book, it might as well come with a bookmark to hold your place when you step outside to use the restroom. Read Full Review » -
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New York Post
The quirky High Fidelity really deserves being called the first must-see movie of the century. Read Full Review » -
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New York Daily News
When director Stephen Frears worked with (Jack Black), he must have yelled "Let 'er rip!" instead of "Action!" Read Full Review » -
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Rolling Stone
All the pieces hang together. You can't say that about many movies. Read Full Review » -
80
Newsweek
Cusack is a master at playing smart, frazzled, self-flagellating hipsters, and the movie, propelled by his arias of angst, lets him strut his best stuff. Read Full Review » -
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Film.com
(Cusack)'s genius, however, is in his continual ability to be the most likeable of everymen. Read Full Review » -
80
TNT RoughCut
High Fidelity’s hip structure and offbeat characters provide consistent laughs and a good time. Read Full Review » -
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Chicago Tribune
Easily cracks the top five list of reasons to go to the movies these days - and defies categories in doing so. Read Full Review » -
75
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
It's aimed squarely at a young dating audience, and is not likely to be hugely captivating for anyone out of that demographic. Read Full Review » -
74
Mr. Showbiz
Even if it sometimes skips, it's consistently wittier and more idiosyncratic that most studio movies. Read Full Review » -
70
TV Guide
One of the sharpest and emotionally resonant romantic comedies in what seems like years. Read Full Review » -
70
Chicago Reader
The humor about male neurosis doesn't try to remind you of Woody Allen at every turn. Read Full Review » -
67
Entertainment Weekly
For all its music-trivia affection, High Fidelity is finally a pretty thin melody. Read Full Review » -
63
Miami Herald
Ultimately too slight for its own good: It's a genial little doodle, light on plot and heavy on quotable, pithy observations. Read Full Review » -
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Slate
It's almost criminal the way the central relationship of High Fidelity has been left such a void. Read Full Review » -
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Christian Science Monitor
The meandering story and channel-surfing style prevent it from gathering the emotional momentum it would need to get below the hero's skin and let us know what really makes him tick. Read Full Review » -
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Village Voice
It may seem perverse to fault a movie for being too accurate, but when surface accuracy is coupled with tunnel vision about self and society the result is a wee bit irritating. Read Full Review »
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