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Avg. Critic Score: 79 out of 100 Generally favorable reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
16 OK for kids 16+
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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 100
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

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

  • 100
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Causes us to leave the theater quite unreasonably happy. Read full review

  • 100
    Variety | Joe Leydon

    Trenchantly witty and acutely insightful. Read full review

  • 90
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    A sharp and satisfying romantic comedy. Read full review

  • 90
    The New York Times | Stephen Holden

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

  • 88
    San Francisco Chronicle | Edward Guthmann

    Terrific. Read full review

  • 88
    Boston Globe | Jay Carr

    Sad, funny, brilliant. Read full review

  • 80
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

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

  • 67
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

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

  • 63
    USA Today | Susan Wloszczyna

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

View more reviews for High Fidelity on Metacritic

Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says OK for kids 16+ Funny, neurotic, and charming, but not for kids.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this movie has very strong R-rated material, including explicit sexual references and sex for reasons other than intimacy (one-night stand just for the sex, sex to numb sad feelings). Characters drink and smoke a lot.
  • Families can talk about the way people change as they grow up.
What to watch for
  • violence false0 Violence: Comic scuffle.
  • sex false4 Sex: A lot of sexual references and encounters, including one sex scene in a car; an abortion.
  • language false4 Language: Very strong language.
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Lots of bands are name-checked.
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: A lot of smoking and drinking.
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