The film could have done so much more -- but it just didn't.
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11/20/08
New Best Friend (2002)
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Reviews Counted:38
Fresh:2
Rotten:36
Average Rating:2.9/10
Consensus: Generic, confusing, and trashy, New Best Friend is a laughably bad, obvious campus whodunit.
Synopsis: It's January, the start of a new semester at exclusive Colby University nestled in the Carolina countryside. Near the campus, four young women prepare themselves for the final semester of their... [More]
Starring: Mia Kirshner, Meredith Monroe, Taye Diggs, Dominique Swain
Director: Zoe Clarke-Williams
Reviews for New Best Friend
A campus drama-cum-whodunit that's obvious and exploitative even by low-bar youthpic standards.
06/23/08
Top CriticA dull, generic title for a dull, generic film.
03/06/07
No review available.
09/13/05
New Best Friend shouldn’t have gone straight to video; it should have gone straight to a Mystery Science Theater 3000 video.
06/10/03
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.
10/02/02
[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.
08/27/02
Even in terms of the low-grade cheese standards on which it operates, it never quite makes the grade as tawdry trash.
04/24/02
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.
04/21/02
The party scenes deliver some tawdry kicks. The rest of the film ... is dudsville.
04/18/02
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.
04/16/02
Incompetent but inadvertently entertaining.
04/15/02
The story wields through confusingly and often ricochets so unevenly you're downright confused as to what's up and who's where.
04/14/02
The trashy teen-sleaze equivalent of Showgirls.
04/14/02
Instead of trying to bust some blondes, [Diggs] should be probing why a guy with his talent ended up in a movie this bad.
04/13/02
This film from Zoe Clarke-Williams is a most predictable regurgitation of teen peer pressure and drug misuse.
04/13/02
The movie has very little to offer besides unintentional laughs.
04/12/02
The angst-ridden, affluent slacker characters are more grating than engaging.
04/12/02
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.
04/12/02
Great trash, one of those mediocre movies that in its own crass way is more enjoyable than most things that get nominated for Oscars.
04/12/02
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