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

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

| Original Score: B+ | 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

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

Most of the first hour passes without much more forward motion than its namesake. But in the corners and niches of that slow development, we get to know a handful of people, crisply drawn in fast sketches.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 5, 2008

A little piece of cinematic poetry.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 23, 2008

Provides a diverting portrait of modern-day Israel, as the filmmakers eschew history, politics and religion to focus instead on more intimate and universal issues of fate, loss and the longing to connect.

| May 16, 2008

A brief, haunting tale of three women in contemporary Tel Aviv, Jellyfish seems to float in its viewers' consciousness; you'll remember its images long afterward.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | May 16, 2008

These stories have as their justification that fact that they are intrinsically interesting. I think that's enough.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 16, 2008

The film doesn't so much move as glide, each scene seeming to tumble in one after the other like a slowly crashing wave coming into contact with the shore.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 15, 2008

The film has a sense of the genial absurdity of life, a whimsical appreciation of the inescapable randomness of our anything-can-happen existence, of how fragile yet resilient are the bonds that draw people together.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 25, 2008

Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen have made a mysterious film, full of existential anxiety, in which lonely people, all connected to the sea, find ways to repair their lives.

| Apr 25, 2008

There's enough material here for a miniseries, but the directors keep the proceedings to 78 brisk minutes without making the viewer feel cheated.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 4, 2008

I appreciated and admired the craftsmanship of Jellyfish more than I loved it, and I found its whimsical, magic-realist touches a bit cloying.

| Apr 4, 2008

Jellyfish is the kind of movie in which the accidental connections between lonely city dwellers are given a magical glow of serendipity.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 4, 2008

Jellyfish is the kind of film that will ring true for some viewers, while striking others as too slight and precious.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Apr 3, 2008

The celebrated Israeli author Etgar Keret and his wife, screenwriter Shira Geffen, directed this luminous foray into magic realism, Tel Aviv style.

| Apr 2, 2008

Marvelously inventive, often-ironic Israeli storyteller Etgar Keret and his life- and workmate, Shira Geffen, spin in Jellyfish a dreamy, arty, alluringly cockeyed tale.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 2, 2008