Lacking the minimal jellyfish connective tissue required by even a quasi-anthology like this, the movie as a whole just lies there like the limp wet invertebrate for which it's named.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 6, 2018

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

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

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Apr 4, 2011

Keret and Geffen observe situations with such a low-key, spaced-out humor that moments in which their depressed characters finally reach for human connection sneak up on you with unexpected emotion.

| Sep 11, 2010

This festival favourite has moments of promise but Jellyfish is lacking, has an unwillingness to completely contextualize the women in this contemporary setting

| Original Score: 70/100 | Dec 31, 2009

Explores modern-day loneliness and alienation in Tel Aviv.

| Original Score: B | Oct 5, 2009

A large number of idiosyncratic and deadpan supporting characters provides amusement around dispirited women floating through sweetly satisfying meanderings.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Dec 14, 2008

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 18, 2008

A film that is fresh in both style and story.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Oct 18, 2008

There are sharply observed moments of social intercourse and a nice current of realistic honesty. But when I ask myself what it is that these women in the movie want, I come up with bubkes.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Oct 18, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 18, 2008

...the contrivances ... allow the filmmakers to tell the stories of a number of different characters who would otherwise have no business being in the same film.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Sep 19, 2008

The directors infuse the film with a short story's spare dialogue and tight pacing -- the running time is all of 76 minutes -- while subtle visual motifs and judicious moments of magical realism demonstrate cinema at its most elegant.

Full Review | Aug 28, 2008

Although its title might have some assuming this is a cheap remake of a bad horror B movie from the '50s, Jellyfish is actually quite a reflective and pensive picture.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 8, 2008

Jellyfish, with its pervasive sense of mysticism, is anything but standard, predictable storytelling. What is it exactly? Well, you might as well ask a jellyfish.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 8, 2008

Thematically, it's extremely precise, and one of its most compelling themes is the failure, or uselessness, of language.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 8, 2008

Although the "hyperlink" drama that features a lot of interconnecting storylines has become a common staple of the arthouse, "Jellyfish" manages to be a weird and memorable creature all its own.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 20, 2008

It's a wisp of a thing, but it's a lovely wisp.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 13, 2008

These interlocking stories don't add up to a conventional narrative. It helps to think of Jellyfish as a tone poem. And like the invertebrate that is its namesake, the film is by turns beautiful, stinging and rather shapeless.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 13, 2008