“Twin Peaks” is providing plenty of summer weirdness on the small screen, but if you’re looking for something oddball at the cinema, put “Lemon” on your list. The new comedy from director Janicza Bravo premiered at the Sundance Film Festival, and now the distinct flavor is gearing up to get out in the world.

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The ensemble includes Brett Gelman (who co-wrote the film), Judy Greer, Michael Cera, Shiri Appleby, Fred Melamed, Rhea Perlman, David Paymer, Gillian Jacobs, Jon Daly, Martin Starr, Megan Mullally, Jeff Garlin, Elizabeth De Razzo, Marla Gibbs, and Nia Long in this story of a 40 year-old man grappling with a severe mid-life crisis.

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So often the problem with quirk is not the quirk itself, but the fact that the quirk is alloyed with sentimentality, and the resulting whimsy becomes just too cute to bear. So Janicza Bravo‘s directorial debut, which premiered in Sundance before opening the International Film Festival of Rotterdam, is to be congratulated for avoiding that pitfall by quite some distance: it quirks hard for its money, but its tone is sourer than the eponymous citrus fruit.

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If you came to “UnREAL” well after its first season aired, you’d be forgiven. Lifetime wasn’t exactly known for prestige television, and a scripted look behind the scenes at a “The Bachelor”-type show didn’t seem to have the pedigree required to distract people from whatever series led by another white male antihero they were obsessed with at the time. Co-created by Marti Noxon and Sarah Gertrude Shapiro, the first year of the show built buzz week after week and in the months since it aired with a combo of juicy drama, cutting dialogue and insightful satire.

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