An Evening with Beverly Luff Linn's reviews
Media reviews
The Guardian
This is an entirely ridiculous shaggy-dog story, a comedy salted with strangeness and seasoned with surreality.
Empire
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.
Indiewire
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.
Variety
Big comedy stars enlisted in oddball Jim Hosking's follow-up to "The Greasy Strangler" ? but audiences must have a high tolerance for kooks.
Los Angeles Times
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.
The A.V. Club
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.
Roger Ebert
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.
The Hollywood Reporter
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 (...) All this would probably play better with the assistance of some weed.
The Playlist
Hosking and screenwriter David Wike wrote the loony screenplay with the intention to, no doubt, mess with audiences the same way they did with 'The Greasy Strangler' Their plan has failed.
The Playlist
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