New Best Friend (2002)

13

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83	Seattle Post-Intelligencer Sean Axmaker Confidently directed and elegantly designed, this smart drama is sensitive, sympathetic and refreshingly free of glib moralizing.
50	Entertainment Weekly Owen Gleiberman Dudsville.
50	San Francisco Chronicle Mick 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.
40	TV Guide Magazine Maitland McDonagh The film isn't even enjoyably sleazy: It's just dumb and tacky.
38	Boston Globe Loren King Tawdry, trashy yawn-fest that makes the viewer long for the days when bad girls were dangerous dames with sultry style.
10	The New York Times Stephen Holden A preposterous, prurient whodunit.
10	Variety Dennis Harvey Obvious and exploitative even by low-bar youthpic standards.
0	New Times (L.A.) Robert Wilonsky Seems to exist solely to prove there is something beneath the bottom of the barrel.
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.
0	L.A. Weekly Chuck 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.

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