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By Matt Donato (975) for We Got This Covered (2,391) on 16 Aug 2017

Bravo’s abundance of inexplicable details makes for an interesting conundrum at first, but mystery soon fades…

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By Katie Walsh (1,279) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 16 Aug 2017

In Lemon, Bravo and Gelman find a transcendent absurdity in the mundane that’s awkwardly enchanting…

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By John Anderson (1,358) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 16 Aug 2017

Lemon is all about this pull and push, toward and away from the characters and the movie itself…

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By Nick Schager (2,294) for The Daily Beast (380) on 16 Aug 2017

Beyond deadpan, beyond drollness, beyond absurdity, lies Lemon, a comedy so uniquely off-kilter that it's never exactly clear when, or why,…

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By Emily Yoshida (237) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 15 Aug 2017

It’s the work of a filmmaker who has been honing her own jarring, idiosyncratic sense of rhythm and character for years…

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By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky (836) for AV Club (2,778) on 15 Aug 2017

Gelman and Bravo, who wrote the script together, are married in real life, a fact that somehow makes Lemon’s mix of broad caricature and…

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By Randall Colburn (93) for Consequence of Sound (1,431) on 15 Aug 2017

Lemon remains wholly original throughout, rendering old themes fresh with its bold perspective…

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By Jason Ooi (15) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 15 Aug 2017

Most of the humor stems from the humiliation of its protagonist — the binding thereof — and it is all quite funny, in a demented, cringy…

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By Jake Wilson (570) for The Age (Australia) (918) on 14 Aug 2017

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 TV…

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By Vincent Mancini (369) for FilmDrunk (362) on 14 Aug 2017

I'd love to bottle what Lemon has and sprinkle it on other comedies…

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By Chuck Bowen (756) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 14 Aug 2017

Self-absorption is Janicza Bravo’s focus, though—as in other smug and mock-ironic comedies—it’s a topic that’s less examined than indulged…

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By Kyle Turner (65) for TheWrap (3,203) on 09 Aug 2017

This is a filmmaker precise in her composition and in her texture, her comedic beats reminiscent of both David Lynch and Issa Rae…

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By Owen Gleiberman (3,271) for Variety (12,700) on 13 Jul 2017

Lemon is a comedy of miserablism that keeps poking you in the ribs — and, quite often, fails to hit the rib it’s aiming for…

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By Todd Mccarthy (1,810) for The Hollywood Reporter (7,050) on 13 Jul 2017

Lemon represents a feature debut of unusual assurance and control with a style all its own…

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By Jessica Kiang (522) for The Playlist (3,871) on 13 Jul 2017

Lemon is too in love with being oddball to really have any connection to the real, non-quirky world…

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By David D'arcy (130) for Screen International (2,241) on 13 Jul 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…

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By Eli Fine (27) for The Young Folks (1,024) on 09 May 2017

Lemon is the odd Wes Anderson pastiche - it brings to mind The Royal Tenenbaums in particular - that quickly develops its own essence, not…

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By Joe Gross (195) for Austin American-Statesman (501) on 16 Mar 2017

Bravo and Gelman deliver an unnerving and deeply weird portrait of the artist as a middle-aged jerk…

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By Jason Bailey (832) for Flavorwire (598) on 30 Jan 2017

This is not a conventional comedy; in fact, it barely qualifies as a comedy at all, staking out a claim in its own, strange territory…

Review of Lemon (2017)

By Eric Kohn (1,203) for indieWire (3,631) on 25 Jan 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…

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