"Rashomon-for-dipsticks tale." -- Liz Braun, JAM! MOVIES   "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." -- Ryan Cracknell, APOLLO GUIDE   "Even in terms of the low-grade cheese standards on which it operates, it never quite makes the grade as tawdry trash." -- Michael Dequina, MR. BROWN'S MOVIES   "No big whoop, nothing new to see, zero thrills, too many flashbacks and a choppy ending make for a bad film." -- JoBlo, JOBLO'S MOVIE EMPORIUM   "A late-night cable sexploitation romp masquerading as a thriller about the ruthless social order that governs college cliques." -- Maitland McDonagh, TV GUIDE'S MOVIE GUIDE   "It's hard to pity the 'plain' girl who becomes a ravishing waif after applying a smear of lip-gloss. Rather, pity anyone who sees this mishmash." -- Michael Phillips, CITYSEARCH   "The trashy teen-sleaze equivalent of Showgirls." -- Marc Savlov, AUSTIN CHRONICLE   "A cautionary after-school special gone completely berserk, an anti-drug movie so loopy that it seems to be on speed itself." -- Frank Swietek, ONE GUY'S OPINION   "From beginning to end, this overheated melodrama plays like a student film." -- Scott Von Doviak, FORT WORTH STAR-TELEGRAM   Click to read the article. -- Clint Morris, MOVIEHOLE

Hot Pick   "It's never a good sign when a film's star spends the entirety of the film in a coma. It's a worse sign when you begin to envy her condition." -- Robert Wilonsky, NEW TIMES

Cream of the Crop ROTTEN 11% Avg. Rating: 2.7/10   "The party scenes deliver some tawdry kicks. The rest of the film ... is dudsville." -- Owen Gleiberman, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY   "Just consider what New Best Friend does not have, beginning with the minor omission of a screenplay." -- Rick Groen, GLOBE AND MAIL   "A preposterous, prurient whodunit." -- Stephen Holden, NEW YORK TIMES   "A film that loses sight of its own story." -- Kirk Honeycutt, HOLLYWOOD REPORTER   "Instead of trying to bust some blondes, [Diggs] should be probing why a guy with his talent ended up in a movie this bad." -- Peter Howell, TORONTO STAR   "Represents the depths to which the girls-behaving-badly film has fallen." -- Loren King, BOSTON GLOBE   "Great trash, one of those mediocre movies that in its own crass way is more enjoyable than most things that get nominated for Oscars." -- Mick LaSalle, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE   "New Best Friend's Playboy-mansion presentation of college life is laugh-out-loud ludicrous." -- Tom Maurstad, DALLAS MORNING NEWS   "Sometimes there are very, very good reasons for certain movies to be sealed in a jar and left on a remote shelf indefinitely." -- Gene Seymour, LOS ANGELES TIMES --  Click to read the article. -- ARIZONA REPUBLIC

  "New Best Friend shouldn’t have gone straight to video; it should have gone straight to a Mystery Science Theater 3000 video."
-- Jeffrey Westhoff, NORTHWEST HERALD (CRYSTAL LAKE, IL)