Very disappointing...

This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

The joyful confection is coated in a sparkly gloss, bright enough to gleam from the darkest, most cynical corners.

Although I seem to have had higher expectations than I thought, the movie is super entertaining.

Feels like "Cruel Intentions" but spicier. Mia Kirshner was the reason for me to watch the movie. I'm in lust with her. She's physically perfect. Her sexy acting in this movie is great. She even has a steamy but brief sex scene. I got all the Mia I wanted.I terms of plot, it's very decent. It's one of those teen intriguing thrillers that deals with revenge, envy, sex, etc. The things you are used to live in high school. Heck, even a cop gets in the middle.Taye Digss's accent has become some sort of cult classic. I found this movie to be morbid but interesting. That's enough to fit in the teenage 2000's cinema. Don't expect a great plot but it should please your hunger for the "Cruel Intentions" type of movies.

this movie is really interesting. it explains how rich parents students pass their time and how other students do for fun. the movie starts when Alicia, who is quite poor and had to struggle with her life, was impressed by higher class or rich students. so when the chance came to her to explore rich life, as a professor asked her to partner Hadley Ashton who is a rich girl. as time goes on Alicia became obsessed by her new experience of doing friendship with the rich girls. she started doing like them binge drinking, taking drugs specially coke, and sleeping with any guy who is interested. so Hadley started to feel like Alicia had stolen her own life as she discovered her flirting with Alicia's bf. and even Mr Ashton, Hadley's father, started to help Alicia. so Hadley tried to get rid of Alicia by fixing her with pure over doze coke. but at the graduation day the young detective discovered the whole story.

I would have to disagree on most of the user comments on this movie. Most insist it is a piece of trash, not worth viewing. And yes perhaps they're right about the trashy part but in my humble opinion, New Best Friend is in the same kind of league as 90210 - entertaining trash that as much as we hate to admit it, we actually find ourselves engrossed in.Yes, the story is unoriginal and the script poor but the performances by the key actors are good enough to keep viewers interested. Mia Kirsher (Exotica, The Crow:City of Angels) delivers a stellar performance despite the bad material she was given to work with. An actress of her calibre should be choosing better parts in significantly better movies but I'm willing to forgive her for making one bad decision (but that's only because personally I didn't find New Best Friend a complete waste of my time). Meridith Monroe, Dominique Swain and Rachel True are all effective in their roles however one bad performance has to come from Taye Diggs as the officer in charge of investigating Alicia's (Kirsher) overdose which has suspicious circumstances. Diggs usually turns in fine performances but in New Best Friend he just looks bored. Perhaps that's due to the lack of good material he had to work with.Overall I found New Best Friend to be an entertaining movie. Sure there was a lot of things wrong with it and it certainly won't go down as one of my favourite films of the year but it succeeds for what it is - great trash!

"New Best Friend" is a slow, pulpy but compelling mystery-thriller. It works in large part thanks to Meredith Monroe, who brings real depth to her role. Another one of its strong points is that the characters are not clearly labeled as "good" or "bad"; you can feel the evil hanging over everything but you never know where it will come from. On the negative side, there is at least one gaping story hole (in a flashback near the end, Kirshner's character appears to be at two different places at the same time!), and Taye Diggs is miscast (too young) as the investigator on the case. (**1/2)