SummaryLemon: 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?... Read More
Directed By:Janicza Bravo
Written By:Janicza Bravo, Brett Gelman
Lemon
Metascore
Mixed or Average
59
User score
Mixed or Average
5.2
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
59
45% Positive
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
45% Mixed
9 Reviews
9 Reviews
10% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Jul 14, 2017
90
Lemon represents a feature debut of unusual assurance and control with a style all its own.
Aug 16, 2017
80
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.
Jul 14, 2017
75
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.
Jul 14, 2017
60
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.
Aug 24, 2017
50
You can accuse Lemon of a lot of things. False advertising in the title, however, is not one of them.
Aug 24, 2017
40
A grating protagonist alone does not a bad film make, but the episodic, unsatisfying Lemon revels in purposeful nails-on-a-chalkboard unlikability.
Aug 24, 2017
30
Reviewing Lemon feels like taking a sucker’s bet, treating the film with a reverence it never even asks for.
User score
Mixed or Average
5.2
44% Positive
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
22% Mixed
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
33% Negative
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
Nov 21, 2017
4
The entertaining first third of Lemon amounts to very little as the main character, Isaac, simply maintains a pulse for the remaining time. There are no conclusions except that all the scenarios initially introduced slowly fade away or just stop. I think the idea was to beat the notion of futility into the ground. But even failure would've been a welcome sight had it come because of any type of action.
Production Company:
- Burn Later Productions
- Cryk Productions
- Killer Films
Release Date:Aug 18, 2017
Duration:1 h 23 m
Awards
Monmouth Film Festival
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
International Film Festival Rotterdam
• 1 Nomination
Sarasota Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
