The film could have done so much more -- but it just didn't.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Nov 20, 2008

A campus drama-cum-whodunit that's obvious and exploitative even by low-bar youthpic standards.

Full Review | Jun 23, 2008

A dull, generic title for a dull, generic film.

| Mar 6, 2007

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 13, 2005

New Best Friend shouldn't have gone straight to video; it should have gone straight to a Mystery Science Theater 3000 video.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Jun 10, 2003

Its simplicity puts an exclamation point on the fact that this isn't something to be taken seriously, but it also wrecks any chance of the movie rising above similar fare.

Full Review | Original Score: 58/100 | Oct 2, 2002

[Less a movie than] an appalling, odoriferous thing... so rotten in almost every single facet of production that you'll want to crawl up your own *** in embarrassment.

| Original Score: F | Aug 27, 2002

Even in terms of the low-grade cheese standards on which it operates, it never quite makes the grade as tawdry trash.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 24, 2002

With Zoe Clarke-Williams's lackluster thriller "New Best Friend", who needs enemies? Just another generic drama that has nothing going for it other than its exploitive array of obligatory cheap thrills.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 21, 2002

The party scenes deliver some tawdry kicks. The rest of the film ... is dudsville.

| Original Score: C | Apr 18, 2002

It shows that some studios firmly believe that people have lost the ability to think and will forgive any shoddy product as long as there's a little girl-on-girl action.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 16, 2002

Incompetent but inadvertently entertaining.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 15, 2002

The trashy teen-sleaze equivalent of Showgirls.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Apr 14, 2002

The story wields through confusingly and often ricochets so unevenly you're downright confused as to what's up and who's where.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Apr 14, 2002

Instead of trying to bust some blondes, [Diggs] should be probing why a guy with his talent ended up in a movie this bad.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Apr 13, 2002

This film from Zoe Clarke-Williams is a most predictable regurgitation of teen peer pressure and drug misuse.

| Apr 13, 2002

The movie has very little to offer besides unintentional laughs.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 12, 2002

The angst-ridden, affluent slacker characters are more grating than engaging.

| Original Score: 1.5/5 | Apr 12, 2002

Nobody seems to have cared much about any aspect of it, from its cheesy screenplay to the grayish quality of its lighting to its last-minute, haphazard theatrical release.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/4 | Apr 12, 2002

Great trash, one of those mediocre movies that in its own crass way is more enjoyable than most things that get nominated for Oscars.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Apr 12, 2002