New Best Friend
Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) | Release Date: April 12, 2002 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
13
METASCORE
Overwhelming dislike based on 15 Critic Reviews
Positive:
1
Mixed:
3
Negative:
11
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
Seattle Post-IntelligencerSean Axmaker
Confidently directed and elegantly designed, this smart drama is sensitive, sympathetic and refreshingly free of glib moralizing. Read full review
50
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Dudsville. Read full review
50
San Francisco ChronicleMick LaSalle
Great trash, one of those mediocre movies that in its own crass way is more enjoyable than most things that get nominated for Oscars. Read full review
40
TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
The film isn't even enjoyably sleazy: It's just dumb and tacky. Read full review
38
Boston GlobeLoren King
Tawdry, trashy yawn-fest that makes the viewer long for the days when bad girls were dangerous dames with sultry style.
38
New York Daily NewsElizabeth Weitzman
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. Read full review
10
The New York TimesStephen Holden
A preposterous, prurient whodunit. Read full review
10
VarietyDennis Harvey
Obvious and exploitative even by low-bar youthpic standards. Read full review
10
The A.V. ClubScott Tobias
A lurid, unsavory mix of Reefer Madness hysteria, drive-in sleaze, and the queasy morality of '80s slasher film. Read full review
10
Village VoiceMichael Atkinson
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. Read full review
10
Los Angeles TimesGene Seymour
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. Read full review
0
New Times (L.A.)Robert Wilonsky
Seems to exist solely to prove there is something beneath the bottom of the barrel. Read full review
0
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
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. Read full review
0
L.A. WeeklyChuck Wilson
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. Read full review
0
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
90 minutes of ridiculous, silly fun. Of course, it's still a very bad movie. Read full review
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