New Best Friend

New Best Friend

How far would you go to fit in?

Directed by Zoe Clarke-Williams

Produced by FGM Entertainment

200291 min5.1 / 10

A dark social thriller about class, belonging, and the dangerous price of infiltrating a privileged clique, told through betrayal and escalating peril.

Alicia is a poor girl starting college. Hadley, Julianne and Sydney are three well-off girls in a row house. Classes begin and Alicia is paired with Hadley to work on a sociology class project. At first rejected, Alicia is finally accepted into Hadley's clique where she is introduced to a world of privilege and dangerous thrills. But her attempts to become one of them ultimately land her in the hospital.

Questions people ask

  • Does New Best Friend end with hope? Barely. Less hopeful than 80% of films.

  • Is New Best Friend scary? Somewhat. More frightening than 67% of films.

  • Is New Best Friend sad? Somewhat. More sad than 61% of films.

  • Is New Best Friend easy watching? Not especially. Less comforting than 61% of films.

  • Is New Best Friend violent? Somewhat. More violent than 59% of films.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

15/ 100

Cinnamon Score

How much this film gives you that nothing else will, and whether it delivers.

Conventional, and it does not land.

Rarity58

How unlike any other film this one feels

Surprise4

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love5

How much audiences actually like it

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Ensemble

Like New Best Friend

Nearest across the full emotional profile.

Same Mood as New Best Friend

Nearest on what's most distinctive about this one.

Like New Best Friend, But Darker

Similar, pushed toward heavier and more intense.

Like New Best Friend, But Lighter

Similar, pushed toward warmer and easier.

Like New Best Friend, But Less Popular

Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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