I Don't Like Your New Friend
Directed by Eli Guinther
There is a certain category of film that exists beyond the reach of the cultural apparatus entirely.
Consciousness Markers
The premise centers on a woman processing infidelity and forming a new female friendship, which carries a faint feminist undertone, though nothing in the available evidence suggests it rises to an agenda.
No evidence exists regarding deliberate diversity casting choices or representation-driven casting decisions. With a cast of six in an obscure indie production, no data supports any score above zero.
No LGBTQ+ themes, characters, or commentary have been identified in any available description or review of this film.
No racial themes, commentary, or consciousness-raising elements have been identified in this film.
No climate or environmental messaging of any kind is present or documented.
No anti-capitalist themes or critique of wealth and class structures are evident.
No body positivity messaging or related themes have been identified.
No neurodivergent characters or related themes are referenced in any available material.
The film is a contemporary fictional drama with no historical setting or revisionist intent.
No evidence of sermonizing, heavy-handed messaging, or moralistic lecturing exists in any available description or commentary.
Why it received this score
There is a certain category of film that exists beyond the reach of the cultural apparatus entirely. No critics have weighed in. No Twitter threads have been written in its defense or condemnation. It has received, at the time of this writing, a single TMDB vote. "I Don't Like Your New Friend" occupies this category with complete serenity, a drama-comedy-horror hybrid about a woman named Olive who, after being cheated on, acquires a friend with mysterious intentions. The premise is modest. The footprint is smaller.
From the available evidence, which is to say almost none, this film appears to be a micro-budget indie production operating entirely outside the circuits of progressive cultural messaging. The cast is predominantly female, and the central relationship is between women, which in a more culturally ambitious production might have been leveraged into something pointed. Here, it appears to simply be a story. The distinction is important, and increasingly rare. A woman having a suspicious new friend is, it turns out, not inherently a statement about the patriarchy.
Scoring this film is an exercise in epistemic humility. We are presented with a synopsis, a poster, and a vote count of one. That lone voter, whoever they are, has done more critical engagement with this film than the entire professional press combined. We salute them. The film scores a 5 on feminist grounds purely as a concession to the geometry of its premise, not any documented intent. Everything else is zero. In a landscape where films routinely announce their social consciousness before the opening credits have finished, "I Don't Like Your New Friend" achieves something almost meditative: it simply does not seem to care.
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Synopsis
After being cheated on, Olive meets a new friend who has mysterious intentions.