Red Lights Reviews

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• unfortunately, the greater scope and an affirmative shift in the conclusion of Red Lights hasn't consequently contributed to a greater power, for everywhere the film is pocked with holes through which a first-drafty wind blows

  by Nick Pinkerton [Village Voice ]

• the film looks good but has a sense of self-importance that makes it all the easier for it to sink of its own weight

  by Todd McCarthy [Hollywood Reporter ]

• the climactic twist fails to shake you out of your stupor; so confused and clumsy is its presentation that one of the characters has to keep explaining ... and explaining ... what just happened

  by Kathleen Murphy [MSN Movies ]

• starts out with an almost uncountable number of stupid presuppositions, without even counting the one about psychic powers possibly being authentic

  by Andrew O'Hehir [Salon.com ]

• one of the most preposterous and incoherent films of 2012

  by Lou Lumenick [New York Post ]

• it's mystifying how such a muddled and silly movie drew the talented cast it did

  by Claudia Puig [USA Today ]

• half-clever mess of a thriller

  Review rate : B- by Owen Gleiberman [Entertainment Weekly ]

• by constantly undermining the suspension of disbelief it so tenuously struggles to maintain, this otherwise slick pic could require reshoots to restore it to something commercial crowds are willing to take seriously

  by Peter Debruge [Variety ]

• a loud and often hysterical mess, a silly seance of a movie full of jumping tables and exploding light bulbs but minus anything approaching consistent characters or decent dialogue

  by Stephen Whitty [Newark Star-Ledger ]
• Reviewed by Jeannette Catsoulis [New York Times ]
• Reviewed by Mark Jenkins [NPR ]
• Reviewed by Mary F. Pols [TIME Magazine ]

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