High Fidelity

Chicago Sun-Times Roger Ebert

Causes us to leave the theater quite unreasonably happy.

Variety Joe Leydon

Trenchantly witty and acutely insightful.

Washington Post Desson Thomson

A guaranteed pleasure for anyone who ever loved pop music, owned a record collection or suffered in love

Philadelphia Inquirer Steven Rea

With its knowing take on men, messed-up romance and music, is like one long, hook-filled pop song for the eyes.

Portland Oregonian Shawn Levy

It's so spry and lively and warm that you want to dance to it.

Film.com Tom Keogh

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.

The New York Times Stephen Holden

Witty, exquisitely fine-tuned screen adaptation of Nick Hornby's 1995 novel

Los Angeles Times Kenneth Turan

A sharp and satisfying romantic comedy.

Salon.com Stephanie Zacharek

Every single actor here rises to the occasion.

Film.com John Hartl

Hilarious and high-spirited.

Dallas Observer Zac Crane

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.

Boston Globe Jay Carr

Sad, funny, brilliant.

New York Post Lou Lumenick

The quirky High Fidelity really deserves being called the first must-see movie of the century.

San Francisco Chronicle Edward Guthmann

Terrific.

Baltimore Sun Ann Hornaday

The movie is, to borrow Rob's phrase, unassailably cool.

New York Daily News Jami Bernard

When director Stephen Frears worked with (Jack Black), he must have yelled "Let 'er rip!" instead of "Action!"

San Francisco Examiner Wesley Morris

Like laughing into a mirror for 113 minutes.

Charlotte Observer Lawrence Toppman

(Cusack) has never been more effective onscreen.

Rolling Stone Peter Travers

All the pieces hang together. You can't say that about many movies.

Newsweek David Ansen

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.

Film.com Elizabeth Weitzman

(Cusack)'s genius, however, is in his continual ability to be the most likeable of everymen.

TNT RoughCut Tom Cappello

High Fidelity’s hip structure and offbeat characters provide consistent laughs and a good time.

Austin Chronicle Marjorie Baumgarten

A smart, funny, and youth-savvy relationship film.

Chicago Tribune Marc Caro

Easily cracks the top five list of reasons to go to the movies these days - and defies categories in doing so.

Seattle Post-Intelligencer William Arnold

It's aimed squarely at a young dating audience, and is not likely to be hugely captivating for anyone out of that demographic.

Mr. Showbiz Kevin Maynard

Even if it sometimes skips, it's consistently wittier and more idiosyncratic that most studio movies.

TV Guide Steve Simels

One of the sharpest and emotionally resonant romantic comedies in what seems like years.

Chicago Reader Jonathan Rosenbaum

The humor about male neurosis doesn't try to remind you of Woody Allen at every turn.

Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman

For all its music-trivia affection, High Fidelity is finally a pretty thin melody.

Miami Herald Rene Rodriguez

Ultimately too slight for its own good: It's a genial little doodle, light on plot and heavy on quotable, pithy observations.

USA Today Susan Wloszczyna

Isn't all that romantic and is only half as funny as it thinks it is.

Slate David Edelstein

It's almost criminal the way the central relationship of High Fidelity has been left such a void.

LA Weekly Manohla Dargis

High Fidelity wants to be hip, but it's comically square.

Christian Science Monitor David Sterritt

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.

Village Voice Amy Taubin

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.