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Lemon

2017

Janicza Bravo

Brett Gelman, Judy Greer, Michael Cera, Nia Long ...

4.7

146

Comedy. Drama Lemon: a person or thing that proves to be defective, imperfect, or unsatisfactory. Isaac Lachmann is a dud. Isaac Lachmann is 40. Isaac Lachmann is a man in free fall immobilized by mediocrity. His career is going nowhere. His girlfriend of ten years is leaving him. And his overbearing family doesn’t help matters. What did he do to deserve this? Things were supposed to work out differently for him. Isaac Lachmann had big dreams. Now he ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"The film’s entire raison d’être is to be as quirky and anomalous and avant-weird as possible. Mission accomplished. It’s fair to ask, though: To what end?"	NEU
United States	Todd McCarthy The Hollywood Reporter	"A comedy of embarrassment, discomfort and anxiety that just keeps getting funnier as it goes along (...) A feature debut of unusual assurance and control with a style all its own."	POS
United States	Eric Kohn IndieWire	"Genuinely strange and surprising at every moment (...) The filmmaker excels at presenting uncompromising characters and magnifying their worst traits"	POS
United States	Sean L. Malin Austin Chronicle	"Every micro-tragedy spins into a widening vortex of Dadaist black comedy (...) What is surprising, however, is how easily the film makes us laugh at our own foibles."	POS
United Kingdom	David D'Arcy Screendaily	"A staple of independent film and of stand-up comedy which sets the bar high for any newcomer."	POS
United States	Nick Allen rogerebert.com	"The whole movie is an excellent balance of meaningful comedy and 'Lemon's natural, invigorating impulse to be so, so strange."	POS

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