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The New York Times opens a positive review with this:
Set on Christmas Eve, "The Ref" evokes a familiar kind of holiday feeling: the high anxiety and claustrophobia of spending a long dinner with feuding relatives. The plot sounds hopeless, but the film is handled with gleeful irreverence, dark wit and cynicism.Rolling Stone concludes, "The script is crass; the actors never. They keep The Ref from going down for the count." Roger Ebert gives it 3 stars and calls it "fun". Rotten Tomatoes has an audience rating of 73%.
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Can't say the trailer piqued my curiosity, but variety makes horse racing.
ReplyDeleteYes, I was tiring of the same-old and looking for something new to me. There's more out there than I realized.
DeleteThis sounds like fun! Valerie
ReplyDeleteIt is! I'm looking for non-sweet, non-romcom Christmas fare ;) This qualifies lol
DeleteI'm glad you are expanding your Christmas horizons. This sounds irreverent.
ReplyDeleteIt needed to be done ;) Irreverent maybe, but gleeful lol
DeleteI remember this one! Funny and weird--bit of a twist on what one would expect. I enjoyed it! :)
ReplyDeleteI don't remember it from when it came out, and I don't usually see it when I look for Christmas movie lists, but it's a good change of pace :)
DeleteI love how you find festive movies that are not sugar coated, very refreshing 😁. Thanks for sharing and wishing you a happy weekend! J 😊 x
ReplyDeleteThe sugar gets to be a bit much for me after a while, and something with a bit of an edge is called for lol
DeleteI like this movie. It’s different. But fun. It is on my Xmas movie list but haven’t rewatched it again this year. Hugs Erika
ReplyDelete"Different" is what I was after, and this fits the bill nicely :)
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