New Best Friend

Three rich, pretty people befriend their poor, mousy classmate and live to regret it in this teen-centric thriller. Alicia (Mia Kirshner), Hadley (Meredith Monroe), Julianne (Rachel True), and Sydney (Dominique Swain) are four students enrolled in the same sociology class at Colby University, an ...more

This catty, tawdry, generally well-acted B-movie would be nothing but fun if it weren't for two things: the credibility-impaired casting of too-young, too-pretty Taye Diggs as a dogged sheriff, and the fussy chronology necessitated by telling the story from his point of view. As lawman Artie Bonner, Diggs furrows his brow and scowls introspectively, but he can't seem to show the audience what's happening in his character's head. (Nor does screenwriter Victoria Strouse do much to explain why a ...more