Critic Reviews
| 83 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Confidently directed and elegantly designed, this smart drama is sensitive, sympathetic and refreshingly free of glib moralizing.
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| 50 |
Entertainment Weekly
Dudsville.
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| 50 |
San Francisco Chronicle
Great trash, one of those mediocre movies that in its own crass way is more enjoyable than most things that get nominated for Oscars.
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| 40 |
TV Guide
The film isn't even enjoyably sleazy: It's just dumb and tacky.
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| 38 |
Boston Globe
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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| 38 |
New York Daily News
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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| 10 |
Los Angeles Times
Struggles awkwardly to bring a twist or two to its hoary class-conscious story line, aiming for a subtlety in character development that's smothered by excessive kitsch and kink.
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| 10 |
Variety
Obvious and exploitative even by low-bar youthpic standards.
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| 10 |
The Onion (A.V. Club)
A lurid, unsavory mix of Reefer Madness hysteria, drive-in sleaze, and the queasy morality of '80s slasher film.
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| 10 |
Village Voice
Clearly the product of an editing-room scramble, New Best Friend is a self-lambasting farce, despite Kirshner's passionate college try at establishing a third dimension in a brain-dead movie flatland.
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| 10 |
The New York Times
A preposterous, prurient whodunit.
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| 0 |
New Times (L.A.)
Seems to exist solely to prove there is something beneath the bottom of the barrel.
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| 0 |
LA Weekly
This movie could have easily been shot as porn, a transition that would have given it a modicum of respectability and, better still, true social purpose.
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| 0 |
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Calls itself a movie. It has words and pictures like a movie, and will appear in theatres like a movie, and will damn sure charge admission like a movie. But, truth be told, that's pretty much where the resemblance stops.
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| 0 |
Austin Chronicle
90 minutes of ridiculous, silly fun. Of course, it's still a very bad movie.
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