| Original Score: C | Feb 18, 2012

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 18, 2011

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 17, 2011

O Jerusalem is as overstated and expository as a historical pageant, from the drippy music to a sputtering, running gag involving funky old jalopies to clichd speeches and teary-eyed deaths and a final voice-over crying out for peace.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Dec 7, 2007

Good intentions often make bad movies.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Nov 21, 2007

The filmmakers split time between history and personal drama in ways that do full service to neither.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Nov 15, 2007

I felt as though I could have gathered the same information about Israel's beginnings from a pamphlet, and saved myself the film's forthright baggage

| Original Score: 1/4 | Oct 28, 2007

A hopeful and helpful movie that depicts the friendship between a Jew and an Arab that outlasts the winds of war and the culture of revenge and racial hatred surrounding them.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 28, 2007

In trying to be sensitive to such a controversial issue, O Jerusalem glazes over important events settling for mediocrity while giving a history lesson more appropriate for high school.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 26, 2007

It aspires to be an epic drama but suffers from an acute identity crisis: It can't decide if it wants to be history, drama, or a cry for peace in the Mideast.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 26, 2007

The need to touch on pivotal events makes this at times seem like history's 'greatest hits,' although the personal stories provide a narrative thread tying it all together.

Full Review | Oct 26, 2007

It's hard to take the film seriously with [its] contrivances, including a hokey music score, dialogue designed solely to give us historical information.

| Oct 25, 2007

Director Elie Chouraqui and co-writer Didier Lepecheur [fall] prey to a fatal evenhandedness that reduces a complex battle for the loveliest, most fought-over city in the world to a pile of heroic clichs.

Full Review | Oct 25, 2007

Even with its flaws, the film finds many moving moments as it surveys the ravages of a perpetually divided country.

Full Review | Oct 24, 2007

As a history lesson, the film is so elementary and silly that you'd half-expect to find Mr. Peabody and Sherman peeking around the Wailing Wall.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 24, 2007

Such fictionalizations are the stuff of 온라인카지노추천 miniseries, and only serve to add confusion and melodrama to a history that, as Collins and Lapierre's book proves, hardly needs further dramatization.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Oct 19, 2007

Hammers away at its Arab/Jewish variation on the chicken-or-the-egg debate ad nauseam.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Oct 17, 2007

It's not easy to turn one of the most controversial events of the 20th century into a movie that makes your eyes roll, but O Jerusalem does this and worse.

Full Review | Original Score: 1/5 | Oct 17, 2007

In its struggle to present an unbiased portrait that balances Jewish and Palestinian viewpoints evenly, the film loses some narrative focus. Nevertheless, it presents a valuable history lesson that points out the dire effects of British occupation in the

| Original Score: B | Oct 17, 2007

The performances are all good, and there's enough history in O Jerusalem to float a boat of refugees.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Oct 11, 2007