An ambling tour of Israel’s capital, JeruZalem fumbles along as its selfish characters lose focus on the plotlines they once seemed so interested in, and the film begins to crumble like its focal city.

| Aug 1, 2023

Everything is bumpy-jumpy which is quite exciting when giant winged gargoyles are plaguing them, less so when they are sitting by the pool.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 3, 2021

There is a lot of good stuff here, and the Biblical elements give it some much-needed edge, but in the end it's simultaneously too much and not enough.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Oct 3, 2019

Jewish mysticism and mythology are flirted with, but the filmmakers do not seem to realize that those would be much better sources for horror than the typical cheap jump scares they seem to love.

| Aug 21, 2018

The movie is saved from being too formulaic by two elements. The first is Yael Grobglas... The second element is the tongue-in-cheek aspect of the movie.

| Jul 8, 2016

The cool creature design and authentic first-person cinematography/lighting later on will have you forgiving any early shortcomings.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 20, 2016

There are a few nice moments in the film; I do like how Sarah's wearable tech tries to perform facial recognition on the undead. But by the end of JeruZalem, it's clear the glasses are the smartest thing in the movie.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Feb 4, 2016

Old Jerusalem isn't often glimpsed on the big screen, though it's a shame that, in this case, it simply serves as the backdrop to some rampaging CGI demons and half-baked theology about the gates of hell.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jan 29, 2016

The more desperate the characters' flight becomes, the less interesting the movie grows.

| Jan 28, 2016

A pale copy of the [REC] movies with minimal invention and a poorly defined mythology.

Full Review | Original Score: 2/5 | Jan 28, 2016

If not for its setting, the Israeli horror film Jeruzalem would be just another video verite, found-footage, would-be scarefest with little to make it unique...There's just not much scare there.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jan 28, 2016

As impressive as the Old City locations can be, one narrow alleyway looks much like another when the Paz brothers' camera is bouncing to and fro. Not much substance is buried beneath the irritating style.

| Jan 26, 2016

The niftily claustrophobic use of actual Jerusalem locations offers a nice holiday from the more familiar backdrops favored by the POV genre.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 22, 2016

Yes, this is yet another found-footage horror film shot on a shoestring, but there's no need to despair since JeruZalem is a wildly entertaining, often unbearably intense and occasionally drawer-filling experience.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jan 21, 2016

There are moments in the picture that hint at greater things to come, and the helmers have potential as horror handlers, but "Jeruzalem," at best, is sharp short film uncomfortably stretched out into a plodding feature.

| Original Score: C | Jan 21, 2016

The movie's occasional stabs at political commentary never quite pay off. Nor can the writer-directors, brothers Yoav and Doron Paz, fully sustain the film's novelty into the second half, when the script reverts to timeless, tired monster-movie tropes.

| Jan 21, 2016

There's a definite fun factor to Jeruzalem that helps make it just entertaining enough.

| Original Score: C+ | Jan 20, 2016

On the surface its story is slight - demonic horrors are unleashed and people run around trying to survive - but there's much more going on in a film which amply deserves the awards it has received.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 20, 2016

With their tale of petrified friends, governmental gods and roaming murder, Jeruzalem is a terrific and terrible vision of what, for all we know, may well be.

| Original Score: 9/10 | Jan 20, 2016

A few sub-plots get lost... but this offers a satisfyingly large-scale demonic incursion as glimpsed from the streets.

| Jan 20, 2016