Kolker, Robert (2011). A Cinema of Loneliness. Oxford University Press. pp. 295-296. ISBN978-0199730025. «The buddy complex views sexuality as an obstacle to manly acts. But this denial of sexuality carries a covert admission of the possibilities of homosexuality, which, of course, is inadmissible.»
«FilmInt». Film International (Sweden: Kulturrådet) 4 (1-6): 163. 2006. Consultado el 28 de abril de 2012. «In addition to being a masterful precursor to the buddy cop movies and police procedurals popular today, Stray Dog is also a complex genre film that examines the plight of soldiers returning home to post-war Japan.»
Weiner, Jonah (19 de febrero de 2010). «Buddies Cracking Jokes and Heads»(en inglés). Consultado el 20 de febrero de 2016. «The interracial buddy-cop movie (in which, it bears noting, the buddies aren’t always police officers per se, but are always crime fighters) was an ’80s bumper crop, but it has outlived the decade.»
