Bravo's depiction of its protagonist challenges social conventions while also displaying certain awkward scenarios. Brilliantly directed and shot that it may overshadow its narrative.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 14, 2021

Ultimately, Bravo seems to assume we'll sympathize with him for the sole reason that he is the protagonist...

| Dec 11, 2020

Lemon balances a fine line of brilliant and bizarre.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 17, 2019

Lemon's tonal inconsistency ultimately overshadows its faint, offbeat appeal.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 20, 2019

If Lemon is about one thing (and I'm not sure it is), it's about the way people demean each other to make themselves feel better.

| Original Score: 3.5/10 | Dec 25, 2018

Lemon doesn't take the easy road in any aspect of its being. It's a confrontational film willing to put the audience in a series of uncomfortable situations that only grow with each passing moment.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 31, 2018

"Lemon" is one of the funniest, most delightfully strange movies I've seen in the past ten years. I can't wait to see what Janicza Bravo does next.

| Oct 24, 2018

There are more cringe-inducing touches of grossness than I need, and it undermines the assured writing and character development in service of easy potty jokes.

| Aug 23, 2018

Full Review | Jan 30, 2018

Sour comedy-drama about a creep.

| Original Score: C | Nov 18, 2017

The level of eccentricity is so high that it is very difficult to connect with the characters. [Full review in Spanish]

| Oct 11, 2017

Although there are some scattered deadpan laughs, the film prefers to mock rather than offer a shred of sympathy to Isaac over his painfully awkward romantic travails.

| Sep 16, 2017

[Janicza] Bravo and co-writer/spouse [Brett] Gelman have crafted something so intentionally and self-reflexively off-putting that I'm still banging my head against the wall trying to figure out if it's comic gold or just lives up to its title.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Sep 14, 2017

The button-pushing indie comedy Lemon seems like a character study of an obnoxious loser, but it's much more than that.

| Sep 7, 2017

This film operates on such a self-absorbed level of disconnect, that it feels like a parody of hipsters and the perceived notion of independent arthouse cinema.

| Aug 29, 2017

[Janicza] Bravo and [Brett] Gelman may have been aiming for comedy, and they come close with a spliff-saturated barbecue sequence, but Isaac's bumbling often seems more tragic than not.

| Aug 28, 2017

Be prepared for what will prove to be far and away the longest 83 minutes you'll spend watching a movie this year.

| Original Score: 0/5 | Aug 25, 2017

In the end, Lemon is a barely functioning film.

| Original Score: C- | Aug 25, 2017

As deadpan, absurd, and surreal as a movie can get. It's part off-putting and part intriguing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 25, 2017

There's a ton of increasingly focused talent on display here.

| Original Score: 6.5/10 | Aug 25, 2017