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  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 23 m
  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 23 m

Summary 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 dese...

Directed By: Janicza Bravo

Written By: Brett Gelman, Janicza Bravo

  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 23 m
  • 2017
  • Not Rated
  • Magnolia Pictures
  • 1 h 23 m

Lemon

Metascore Mixed or Average Based on 20 Critic Reviews
59
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 9 User Ratings
5.2
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Summary 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 dese...

Directed By: Janicza Bravo

Written By: Brett Gelman, Janicza Bravo

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 20 Critic Reviews
59
45% Positive
9 Reviews
45% Mixed
9 Reviews
10% Negative
2 Reviews

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Metascore
Mixed or Average Based on 20 Critic Reviews
59
45% Positive
9 Reviews
45% Mixed
9 Reviews
10% Negative
2 Reviews

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90
Jul 14, 2017
Lemon represents a feature debut of unusual assurance and control with a style all its own.
By Todd McCarthy FULL REVIEW
80
Aug 16, 2017
It’s the work of a filmmaker who has been honing her own jarring, idiosyncratic sense of rhythm and character for years. As a debut feature, it feels auspicious; as a snapshot of a masculine emergency, it feels timeless.
By Emily Yoshida FULL REVIEW
75
Jul 14, 2017
Enhanced by a number of notable comedic actors entering uncharted terrain, it’s the kind of movie that makes you laugh and flinch in equal measures, and despite some messier twists, never ceases to move in surprising directions.
By Eric Kohn FULL REVIEW
60
Jul 14, 2017
The debut feature by Janicza Bravo takes on a perennial comic genre yet, like its main character, it’s best described as a work in progress.
By David D'Arcy FULL REVIEW
50
Aug 24, 2017
You can accuse Lemon of a lot of things. False advertising in the title, however, is not one of them.
By David Fear FULL REVIEW
40
Aug 24, 2017
A grating protagonist alone does not a bad film make, but the episodic, unsatisfying Lemon revels in purposeful nails-on-a-chalkboard unlikability.
By Abbey Bender FULL REVIEW
30
Aug 24, 2017
Reviewing Lemon feels like taking a sucker’s bet, treating the film with a reverence it never even asks for.
By Ben Kenigsberg FULL REVIEW

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User Score
Mixed or Average Based on 9 User Ratings
5.2
44% Positive
4 Ratings
22% Mixed
2 Ratings
33% Negative
3 Ratings

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Mixed or Average Based on 9 User Ratings
5.2
44% Positive
4 Ratings
22% Mixed
2 Ratings
33% Negative
3 Ratings

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Production Company Burn Later Productions, Cryk Productions, Killer Films
Release Date Aug 18, 2017
Duration 1 h 23 m
Rating Not Rated
Genres
Website http://deadline.com/2016/08/lemon-movie-brett-gelman-janicza-bravo-killer-films-1201804813/
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Awards

Monmouth Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
Rotterdam International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
Sarasota Film Festival
• 1 Nomination

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