High Fidelity Reviews

Uniformly shallow and vapid.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

It contains too many repetitive scenes.

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...the plot could have been better explored if it was discovered what the plot was.

Full Review | Original Score: C-

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

| Original Score: 2/4

There's not much to convince you that High Fidelity isn't a vanity production with some good tunes.

I didn't see this movie because I was miserable that evening, I was miserable that evening because I saw this movie.

| Original Score: 5/10

So much care has been contributed to the soundtrack that director Frears has forgotten about the importance of the film itself.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

Instead of burrowing into Rob's life, we feel like we're skimming across it.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

The insistent verbal nonsense among them wears thin very fast for folks who don't keep their vinyl collection in plastic sleeves. Absolutely, this is a romantic comedy that preaches to the converted.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4

It's got great music -- and great music trivia -- but a shaky soul.

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Stephen Frears ... seems on unsteady ground converting an essentially British story (the novel was set in London) to the American idiom.

Other than those rare giggles or guffaws, High Fidelity is strictly analogue.

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... a bright entertainment that doesn't insult its audience ...a romantic comedy built on a determinedly limited scale

Full Review | Original Score: B

Movies this wry and likable hardly ever get made.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

Stands out as a 'small' motion picture that deserves wide exposure.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Rob spends more time talking to us than he does to any of the other characters in the movie.

| Original Score: 3/5

Funny, neurotic, and charming, but not for kids.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5

Easily makes it onto my top 5 John Cusack movies list.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

Cusack shines in this honest and funny tale.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10

A faithful adaptation of Nick Hornby's quirky, hilariously acute novel.

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