An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn
Picturehouse Entertainment | Release Date: October 19, 2018 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
54
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 17 Critic Reviews
Positive:
9
Mixed:
1
Negative:
7
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Critic scorePublicationBy date
89
Austin ChronicleJosh KupeckiOct 18, 2018
At its heart, Luff Linn is a very sweet love story between Colin and Lulu, punctuated by absurdity and a specific type of humor that (as I’ve referenced before) brings to the screen the spirit of the work of famed graphic novelist Daniel Clowes. Read full review
80
EmpireKim NewmanOct 22, 2018
Some will find this impenetrable and irritating, but audiences willing to tune into Hosking’s off-kilter style will be moved by the ridiculous love stories and relish the hilarious eccentricity. Read full review
80
The GuardianPeter BradshawOct 18, 2018
This is an entirely ridiculous shaggy-dog story, a comedy salted with strangeness and seasoned with surreality. Read full review
75
IndieWireEric Kohn
The result is sometimes overlong and wears out its welcome, but it clarifies Hosking’s distinctive tone — a playful and often charming blend of outré humor and genuine emotion that makes him one of the most distinctive new voices in current cinema. Read full review
70
Film ThreatMatthew PassantinoJun 18, 2020
While most of the plot of An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn feels like several different movies working at once, they all converge into a bizarre, madcap finale. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesKatie WalshOct 18, 2018
At nearly two hours, An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn grossly overstays its welcome, but the Hail Mary ending proves it to be a rather sweet and tender story about love lost and found in the unlikeliest of places. Read full review
70
VarietyAmy Nicholson
Hosking has a vision, and more often that not, it works. Read full review
67
The A.V. ClubIgnatiy VishnevetskyOct 17, 2018
The cast is mostly made up of film and TV comedy pros, all of whom seem to be having a good time overacting Hosking’s Bizarro World dialogue. Read full review
63
Movie NationRoger MooreOct 14, 2018
It takes an absurdly long time getting here, but with a lot of “Man, that’s nuts” along the way, it’s pretty much worth the wait. Read full review
58
The Film StageMike MazzantiOct 19, 2018
An off-kilter, at times hilarious film that nevertheless loses some of its impact as it stumbles through its own delirium. Read full review
38
RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyOct 19, 2018
Making good absurdist cinema is a lot tougher than good absurdist cinema makes it look. This movie, a stab at absurdism that results in a swampy wallow in affectation, testifies to this fact with sad eloquence. Read full review
38
Slant MagazineChuck BowenOct 10, 2018
The absence here of a joke is meant to be hilarious, or to at least congratulate the audience for willfully submitting to a denial of pleasure. Every element of the film is studiously, painstakingly random. Read full review
30
L.A. WeeklyAbbey BenderOct 31, 2018
While writer-director Jim Hosking’s commitment to weirdness (also seen in his previous outing, The Greasy Strangler) warrants appreciation, especially when so many others play it safe, his latest, comedy An Evening With Beverly Luff Linn, is a chore to get through. Read full review
30
The Hollywood ReporterJohn DeFore
As puerile and go-nowhere as the script is, Clement and Berry are more successful than their costars at making the dialogue their own. Clement even gets a laugh or two. But be assured that the pic's big reveal is not worth the wait. Read full review
30
Screen DailyAnthony Kaufman
Deliberately off-putting, Hosking’s latest tests the audience’s patience with frustratingly unfunny scenarios and an array of nasty, angry characters doing unpleasant things. Read full review
25
The PlaylistJordan Ruimy
It’s a film that you would, of course, expect from the director of such an entity as The Greasy Strangler, but, say what you will about that film, at least it wasn’t boring. Read full review
20
CineVueTom DugginsOct 25, 2018
An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn, tries to make a virtue out of extreme silliness and disjointed, oh-so-random plot points, but the end result is a desperately tiresome viewing experience. Read full review
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