Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Red Lights

Spanish writer and director Rodrigo Cortés returns with this psychological thriller about the paranormal. A psychologist and her physicist assistant study paranormal activities and discover many of them to be fraudulent until a world renowned psychic decides to come out of retirement which has unexpected consequences. Cortés makes an interesting case about the paranormal but can't decide which way to focus which derails the film in the third act. Sigourney Weaver and Cillian Murphy star along with Robert De Niro, Elizabeth Olsen and Toby Jones in the supporting cast. 1001 Films' coverage of the Sundance Film Festival 2012.

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