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"...Hallelujah!..." - Recommended 09/01/1994 p.114New York Times
"...Gleeful irreverence, dark wit and cynicism....[Leary] is unexpectedly terrific....A grown-up film..." 03/09/1994 p.C15 Entertainment Weekly
"...The sharpest dialogue heard in a Hollywood flick since the heyday of Hecht and MacArthur....The performances are uniformly excellent..." -- Rating: A- 08/05/1994 p.58 Los Angeles Times
"...Enthusiastically mean-spirited....It has as much fun being malicious as Snow White did being squeaky clean..." 03/09/1994 p.F1 Chicago Sun-Times
"...[Leary] creates an entertaining character. And Davis and Spacey, both naturally verbal, develop a manic counterpoint in their arguments that elevates them to a sort of art form..." 03/11/1994 p.37 Chicago Sun-Times 7 of 10
Material like this is only as good as the acting and writing. The Ref is skillful in both areas. Dennis Leary, who has a tendency, like many standup comics, to start shouting and try to make points with overkill, here creates an entertaining character. And Davis and Spacey, both naturally verbal, develop a manic counterpoint in their arguments that elevates them to a sort of art form. - Roger Ebert
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