The fact that Red Lights' action doesn't operate in a recognizable universe, however, is a constant problem.

| Original Score: 6.1/10 | Aug 16, 2012

A clever thriller, bolstered by three great performances.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 10, 2012

The film doesn't offer the sense of release, or of surprise, that it seems to take for granted.

| Aug 10, 2012

"The X-Files" is long gone. Hail and farewell. But its spirit lives on in "Red Lights." Hail, hail.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 9, 2012

By strict definition, any movie featuring Robert De Niro as a spoon-bending clairvoyant superstar ought to hold a few cards up its sleeve.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Aug 2, 2012

It's nonsense on a plot level but played seriously without nearly enough personality or edge. Even the film's undeniably talented cast can't save it.

| Original Score: 2.0/5.0 | Aug 2, 2012

A lot of talent comes up empty in "Red Lights," a thriller that doesn't thrill.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 2, 2012

Cortes made "Buried," which means he has more good work to offer. Better luck next film.

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 26, 2012

For its first two acts, the movie had me in its grip. Then it comes apart.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 25, 2012

Red Lights culminates with a twist ending that doesn't just change everything that came previously, it actually negates the entirety of the film.

| Jul 16, 2012

One of the most preposterous and incoherent films of 2012...

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 13, 2012

It's not so much the narrative sleight-of-hand that is irksome, as the implication that there may have been a better movie lurking in there the whole time.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Jul 13, 2012

That all the good things--and there are several--Red Lights has going for it are ultimately in service of an ending that might even make M. Night Shyamalan cringe represents one of the year's biggest missed opportunities.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Jul 12, 2012

Someone should have stopped Red Lights.

| Original Score: 2/4 | Jul 12, 2012

They should have known that a levitating De Niro was simply a séance too far.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 12, 2012

Cortes continues to challenge magical thinking, but ultimately submits to it. The only mystery is which of the characters will turn the screw of the twist ending.

| Jul 12, 2012

I'm pretty sure that "Red Lights" is a fascinating failure -- and possibly an oddball cult film in-the-making -- but a failure none-the-less.

Full Review | Original Score: C | Jul 12, 2012

Fans of all-star catastrophes are advised to see it early and often.

| Jul 12, 2012

It loses momentum and the sense of the unexpected that gave it fuel. Its most operatic moments are actually its weakest.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Jul 12, 2012

Red Lights goes astray on so many levels that I gave up trying to figure it out before the end of the second reel.

| Original Score: 1/4 | Jul 12, 2012