Philadelphia Inquirer by Steven Rea

A beautifully strange movie.

The Globe and Mail (Toronto) by Jason McBride

Like a Keret story, Jellyfish is economical – a mere 78 minutes – but it packs into its taut, intersecting storylines a charming melancholy and a surprisingly rich depth.

Entertainment Weekly by Lisa Schwarzbaum

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

Baltimore Sun by Michael Sragow

What gives the film a haunting and sometimes droll poetic unity is the way co-directors Etgar Keret and Shira Geffen trace all their characters moving in a jellyfish-like fashion.

Variety

Tightly constructed, cleverly stylized, serio-comic ensemble piece. Highly cinematic, with a mood of existential loneliness leavened by magical whimsy, its different story strands share themes including the need for affection and the struggle to communicate.

Variety by Alissa Simon

Tightly constructed, cleverly stylized, serio-comic ensemble piece. Highly cinematic, with a mood of existential loneliness leavened by magical whimsy, its different story strands share themes including the need for affection and the struggle to communicate.

Los Angeles Times by Kenneth Turan

Yes, Jellyfish says, it's a wonderful life, not in that old-fashioned style we've perhaps tired of but in a surprising new and magical way all its own.

TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

Not for all tastes, but produces haunting juxtapositions.

New York Post by V.A. Musetto

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

San Francisco Chronicle by Walter Addiego

The scale is small, but Jellyfish has deep currents.

Chicago Sun-Times by Roger Ebert

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

The New York Times by A.O. Scott

The film’s spirit is refreshingly playful and sweet.

Village Voice by J. Hoberman

An Israeli movie with neither politics nor religion--and only one casual, if fraught, mention of the Holocaust--bespeaks an underlying desire for normality that's as poignant and fantastic as Keret and Geffen's modest, shabby Tel Aviv settings.

The Hollywood Reporter

Several stories, or scraps of stories, are woven together in the making of Jellyfish ("Meduzot"), linked by common themes and a shared sense of humor, poetry and loss.

Chicago Reader by Andrea Gronvall

The overlapping stories pulse with a tidal rhythm, the film's sensibility flowing between serious and wry, and there are memorable turns from Assi Dayan as the waitress's henpecked dad and Tzahi Grad as a cop with a nonchalant attitude toward babysitting.

The A.V. Club by Noel Murray

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

Film Threat by Phil Hall

Although it runs 78 minutes, it feels like 78 hours.