Guzzoni's movie is an unsparing portrait of aimlessness told mostly in the queasiest shades ...

One feels the filmmaker trying hard to work out the inner struggles of his sad but largely unsympathetic characters. But his movie is as miserable and ultimately confounding as it is earnest.

Investigates its moral quandaries with a rigor this kind of bad-seed street-teen movie usually can't manage.

Jesús is less about juvenile delinquency than it is about violence that stems from adolescents testing limits and as a result losing control of the situation.