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2017
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Positive Reviews
17
Negative reviews
20
Average Rating
2.7
/5
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2.0
Her debut feature is much more conventional than it initially lets on, a hack sitcomcomplete with lame jokes about talent agents and commercial auditi ..
Av Club
2.5
They have a disturbing clarity and focus, distinct from the rest of the film.They are accurate, brutal, and very funny.
Rogerebert
3.5
An instant classic that specifically feels like a product of 2017, the kind of bizarre culture treatise that could only come from fresh talent.
Rogerebert
3.0
This offbeat comedy, based somewhat on the experiences of real life couple Gelman and director Janicza Bravo, is as deadpan, absurd, and surreal as a ..
Common Sense Media
1.5
Like her contemporary Rick Alverson (Entertainment, The Comedy), Bravo doesnt shy from the extremes of alienation and despair, nor the way the express ..
Indie Wire
2.0
Ending with a prolonged scatological punchline worthy of John Waters, Lemon leads to no grand epiphany or explication of its themes, content to merely ..
Indie Wire
3.5
In rare cases, a totally off putting protagonist can be a bracing thing.
Variety
2.0
Lemon rolls a bunch of sequential scenes from start to finish, fruitless and unfortunate in its lack of any lasting effect.
We Got This Covered
1.9
Every element of Janicza Bravos Lemon has been carefully engineered to render it a cult item.
2.0
The notion that such an unappealing soul is determined to be an actor is a promising point of departure for gags, and Gelman delivers in deadpan mode.
Screen Daily
2.0
As a debut feature, it feels auspicious; as a snapshot of a masculine emergency, it feels timeless.
Vulture
4.5
Lemon represents a feature debut of unusual assurance and control with a style all its own.
The Hollywood Reporter
2.5
If youre both on the same cinematic wavelength, youll either love or loathe this highly stylized exercise in cringe inducing awkwardness.
4.0
Instead, Bravo and Gelman force Lachmann to stand accountable for imperialism writ large.
1.0
Reviewing Lemon feels like taking a suckers bet, treating the film with a reverence it never even asks for.
The New York Times
4.5
Lemon is a tragicomic ballad of chagrin and stunted masculinity, and yes, it is at times a literal shitshow, a comedy of bodily functions to complemen ..
Paste Magazine
1.0
Isaac is a Job like figure existing in a heightened simulacrum of Hollywoods underbelly, enduring a series of increasingly unfortunate and humiliating ..
4.0
What is wonderful about Lemon is that it keeps that darkness close to its chest until about the halfway mark.
The Young Folks
2.5
Your enjoyment of the film is likely to be highly dependent on your tolerance for the comedy of discomfort; fans of the prickly humor seen on Adult Sw ..
Village Voice
2.0
Its best gags make you cringe with shame for laughing at such vulgarity.
Sover
2.5
After waking up they end up sniffing the mans clothing, presumably to detect the smell of some nocturnal emission of bodily fluid.This is just one of ..
Lariat
1.0
These stories play with fire and do what tales of horror and the macabre are supposed to: transmute real social fears into metaphorical charades for o ..
Pop Matters
3.5
What the cookout scene towards the end of the film shows us is that theres a world beyond the narcissistic one that Isaac and parts of his family occu ..
The Wrap
2.5
Still, it never stops feeling like a strained in joke, with dialogue made up of relentless non sequiturs and a cast full of familiar faces from cable ..
Smh
2.0
Once the final credits roll, the movie will disappear from your memory because it failed to leave anything memorable behind.
Flim Threet
2.0
Most of the humor stems from the humiliation of its protagonist the binding thereof and it is all quite funny, in a demented, cringy way that makes it ..
The Film Stage
5.0
If studio comedies could achieve one tenth this level of craft the world would be a lot more interesting.
Uproxx
2.0
On a craft level the film has much to recommend it, and Bravo is certainly one to watch in future: any one of the films sketches extended to feature l ..
The Play List
1.5
Bravo and Gelman may have been aiming for comedy, and they come close with a spliff saturated barbecue sequence, but Isaacs bumbling often seems more ..
The Stranger
3.5
A dining rooms worth of savage breasts are soothed by the upbeat music and the comic lyrics about Mamas matzo balls.
Wsj
0.0
Be prepared for what will prove to be far and away the longest 83 minutes youll spend watching a movie this year.
Sandiego Reader
3.3
In its best moments, Lemon delivers sharp jabs at toxic masculinity, urban pomposity, and white fragility that are funny enough that you almost forget ..
Under The Radar Mag
1.0
No sane person would likely claim that Lemon is funny in a straightforward way especially considering the gloomy shroud in which it wraps itself.
The Daily Beast
2.5
Despite one sharp, subversive gag about sunscreen, Lemon doesnt have much to say about race, but, then again, its not trying to say much of anything.
Spectrum Culture
1.5
But Lemon, Bravos first feature film, cant seem to get the tragedy/comedy balance right.
Battleship Pretension
3.5
Lemon doesnt take the easy road in any aspect of its being. Its a confrontational film willing to put the audience in a series of uncomfortable situat ..
FanboyNation.com
4.5
That perspective subverts the whole experience, and deepens the meaning of this short and not at all sweet dark comedy.
Lagniappe Mobile
4.5
Where black stories told by white filmmakers are often handled as procedures, their subjects stiff and unconscious, films like Lemon, directed by wome ..
Shadow And Act
4.5
If you like Wes Anderson, The Coen Brothers, Arrested Development, and/or David Lynch, Lemon should hit your film magic sweet spot.
1.8
If Lemon is about one thing (and Im not sure it is), its about the way people demean each other to make themselves feel better.
The Pop Break
4.5
(The films best joke might very well be the cameramans reaction when Lachmann gives his age and weight.)
Austin Movie Blog 360
4.5
Who comes from a great family and has a great job and lives in a beautiful space and is totally stable.
The Culture Trip
1.5
The level of eccentricity is so high that it is very difficult to connect with the characters.
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