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100Causes us to leave the theater quite unreasonably happy.
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100With its knowing take on men, messed-up romance and music, is like one long, hook-filled pop song for the eyes.
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100It's so spry and lively and warm that you want to dance to it.
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100Trenchantly witty and acutely insightful.
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100A guaranteed pleasure for anyone who ever loved pop music, owned a record collection or suffered in love
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90Every single actor here rises to the occasion.
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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.
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90Hilarious and high-spirited.
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90The 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.
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90A sharp and satisfying romantic comedy.
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90Witty, exquisitely fine-tuned screen adaptation of Nick Hornby's 1995 novel
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88When director Stephen Frears worked with (Jack Black), he must have yelled "Let 'er rip!" instead of "Action!"
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88The quirky High Fidelity really deserves being called the first must-see movie of the century.
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88Terrific.
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88Like laughing into a mirror for 113 minutes.
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88Sad, funny, brilliant.
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88The movie is, to borrow Rob's phrase, unassailably cool.
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88(Cusack) has never been more effective onscreen.
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80All the pieces hang together. You can't say that about many movies.
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80(Cusack)'s genius, however, is in his continual ability to be the most likeable of everymen.
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80Cusack 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.
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80High Fidelity’s hip structure and offbeat characters provide consistent laughs and a good time.
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78A smart, funny, and youth-savvy relationship film.
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Easily cracks the top five list of reasons to go to the movies these days - and defies categories in doing so.
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75It's aimed squarely at a young dating audience, and is not likely to be hugely captivating for anyone out of that demographic.
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74Even if it sometimes skips, it's consistently wittier and more idiosyncratic that most studio movies.
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70One of the sharpest and emotionally resonant romantic comedies in what seems like years.
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70The humor about male neurosis doesn't try to remind you of Woody Allen at every turn.
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67For all its music-trivia affection, High Fidelity is finally a pretty thin melody.
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63Ultimately too slight for its own good: It's a genial little doodle, light on plot and heavy on quotable, pithy observations.
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63Isn't all that romantic and is only half as funny as it thinks it is.
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60High Fidelity wants to be hip, but it's comically square.
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60It's almost criminal the way the central relationship of High Fidelity has been left such a void.
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50The 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.
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40It 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.
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