New Best Friend
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Metascore
13 out of 100

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6.8 out of 10

Generally favorable reviews- based on 9 Ratings

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  • Starring: Dominique Swain, Taye Diggs
  • Summary: A local sheriff's investigation into the activities of college seniors at exclusive Colby University casts a shadow of responsibility over a group of untouchable, affluent young women. (Tristar Pictures)

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 15
  3. Negative: 11 out of 15
  1. Seattle Post-Intelligencer
    Reviewed by: Sean Axmaker
    83
    Confidently directed and elegantly designed, this smart drama is sensitive, sympathetic and refreshingly free of glib moralizing.
  2. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Mick LaSalle
    50
    Great trash, one of those mediocre movies that in its own crass way is more enjoyable than most things that get nominated for Oscars.
  3. Boston Globe
    Reviewed by: Loren King
    38
    Tawdry, trashy yawn-fest that makes the viewer long for the days when bad girls were dangerous dames with sultry style.
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  4. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    38
    Preposterous collegiate drama that exists simply to show pretty girls kissing, pretty boys undressing and pretty people of every sexual orientation drinking, doing drugs and otherwise wreaking postadolescent havoc.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 5 out of 7
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 7
  3. Negative: 2 out of 7
  1. KatM.
    9
    A very good movie which is terribly under-rated. I do not understand why this movie got so many bad reviews. I loved the dynamic between the two main characters Hadley (Meredith Monroe, Dawsons Creek) and Alicia (Mia Kirshner, The L Word). Hadley is a self absorbed rich brat who has everything she wants except her father's attention. Alicia is hard working student who dreams of being a lawyer. These two are polar opposites. However, when Alicia gets involved with Hadley and her clique, she starts to become someone else. Alicia not only warms up to Hadley's boyfriend Trevor, but also seems to recieve attention from Hadley's father. In a jealous rage, Hadley switches party mix with 100% pharmaceutical grade cocaine. Alicia thinking she's snorting the fake stuff O.D.'s from the real thing. Taye Diggs is the sheriff who is investigating Hadley, Julianne (Rachel True, The Craft), and Sidney (Dominique Swain, Toxic) on how Alicia O.D.ed. The only reason I did not give this movie a 10 is because some points in the movie were practically predictable. Other than that I thought it to be a very good movie.… Expand

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