The Ref

i bought it without even seeing it and it was funny as hell especially leary who steals the movie also i think this is a great holiday movie that you could watch before christmas if u need a good laugh if... Full review

It's The Night Before Christmas And The Cat Burglar Gus(Leary)Is Making The Last Robbery Of His Criminal Career. But While He Is Robbing A House He Sets Off An Alarm Is Sprayed With Pee And Falls Into A Basement. His Partner... Full review

This movie is hilarious. If you haven't seen it I suggest that you rush right out and get it, You will laugh your ass of.... Full review

This movie is hilarious. If you haven't seen it I suggest that you rush right out and get it, You will laugh your ass of.... Full review

It's The Night Before Christmas And The Cat Burglar Gus(Leary)Is Making The Last Robbery Of His Criminal Career. But While He Is Robbing A House He Sets Off An Alarm Is Sprayed With Pee And Falls Into A Basement. His Partner... Full review

...Then this is definitely not for you! The Ref is one wild "Christmas" movie. I laughed through the whole thing. Poor Gus (Denis Leary)! He kidnaps a couple (Kevin Spacey & Judy Davis) with no intentions of harming them just to... Full review

100% pure comedy. That about sums up this holiday classic from 1994. Denis Leary is sublime. You start laughing after the intro and don't stop until the credits roll. There are too many good quotes from this movie to count and... Full review

In what may be his funniest role to date, Denis Leary plays kidnapper Gus, who takes wealthy Connecticut couple Lloyd (Kevin Spacey) and Caroline Chasseur (Judy Davis) hostage one Christmas Eve, only to have them drive him absolutely nuts due... Full review

A really surprising funny film from start to finish. I really liked all the charactors in the film. I felt really sorry forn Dennsi Leary's characots and Judy Dvis and Keven Spacey are great. The supporting cast are scean stellers. The... Full review

this is one of the funniest movies i have ever seen period. i love it. the grandma is sooo funny. the oneliners keep you laughing and you will actually be rooting for the thief. see it... Full review

But, the one that warms the most cockles in this reviewer's heart is the 1994 gem THE REF, one of the best examples of a family sort of uniting in the face of incompetent adversity ever put to celluloid. Part of what makes THE REF work so nicely is the acidic script by Marie Weiss and Richard LaGravenese (the scribe who gave the world THE FISHER KING), which squeezes 364 days of cynicism into one. ... Full Review

The Ref may not quite hold together, but it's one of those films that actually works better on TV, in part because you're not paying for it and you're not building an evening around it. Brilliantly acted, imaginatively structured and emotionally powerful, the episode encapsulates the optimistic spirit of West Wing at its height. ... Full Review

The script is crass;....Director Ted Demme (Jonathan Demme's nephew) compensates with a whiplash pace that suggests the cutthroat fun of Ruthless People.....Acerbic funnyman Denis Leary gets to show a softer, sexier side in this comedy of marital errors..... ... Full Review

The critics who moan about slackly written Tinseltown trash didn't seem to notice that the black comedy The Ref featured some of the sharpest dialogue heard in a Hollywood flick since the heyday of Hecht and MacArthur. The Ref , wherein a cat burglar inadvertently takes the World's Most Dysfunctional Family hostage, has more than language going for it. ... Full Review

As it unreels, "The Ref" keeps getting dumber, and, unfortunately, it simply wasn't that brilliant to begin with. The premise is flimsy to begin with, and the movie never develops much beyond it. Leary is more problematic. ... Full Review

As we enter the last shopping week before the most commercial of all holidays, it's getting to be that special time of year when everyone gets a little sick of Christmas. ... Full Article

I love Christmas movies such as It's a Wonderful Life as much as any average, sentimental person out there. I admit it. But it isn't exactly the kind of movie that reflects Christmas as I've known it. ... Full Article

Looking for a holiday movie with a bitter but funny twist? Try The Ref (AMC, Friday, 8 ET/PT), a dark comedy starring Denis Leary as a Christmas thief who hides out in the home of a headed-for-divorce couple, played by... ... Full Article

Of all the guilty pleasures to hide under the bed, an affinity for Christmas-themed cinema surely stands with the guiltiest. No film with a promo poster boasting an upside-down Christmas tree is going to win any awards, and Santa's days... ... Full Article