Red Lights 2012

Mary F. Pols, TIME Magazine: Red Lights reaches for a The Sixth Sense-style twist and whiffs it completely. Read more

Amy Biancolli, San Francisco Chronicle: By strict definition, any movie featuring Robert De Niro as a spoon-bending clairvoyant superstar ought to hold a few cards up its sleeve. Read more

Kathleen Murphy, MSN Movies: Stultifying from start to finish, this mess of a movie is supremely incoherent -- plot-, dialogue- and character-wise. Read more

Jeannette Catsoulis, New York Times: They should have known that a levitating De Niro was simply a seance too far. Read more

Rex Reed, New York Observer: Red Lights goes astray on so many levels that I gave up trying to figure it out before the end of the second reel. Read more

Soren Anderson, Seattle Times: "The X-Files" is long gone. Hail and farewell. But its spirit lives on in "Red Lights." Hail, hail. Read more

Noel Murray, AV Club: The movie just sort of... peters out, as the fights between good and evil become less intellectual and more physical, and thus more common. Read more

Bill Goodykoontz, Arizona Republic: A lot of talent comes up empty in "Red Lights," a thriller that doesn't thrill. Read more

Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune: Cortes made "Buried," which means he has more good work to offer. Better luck next film. Read more

Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly: This half-clever mess of a thriller, Red Lights, gets some mileage out of its novel premise. Read more

Todd McCarthy, Hollywood Reporter: A self-important psychic thriller may attract indiscriminate fans of all things paranormal but becomes increasingly incoherent and infuriating. Read more

Christy Lemire, Associated Press: Red Lights culminates with a twist ending that doesn't just change everything that came previously, it actually negates the entirety of the film. Read more

Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times: 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. Read more

Rene Rodriguez, Miami Herald: With the sort of last-minute plot twist that sank M. Night Shyamalan's career, Red Lights comes to an unexpected, risible end. Read more

Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger: How did a cast like this sign on for a movie like this? Read more

Mark Jenkins, NPR: 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. Read more

Lou Lumenick, New York Post: One of the most preposterous and incoherent films of 2012... Read more

Richard Roeper, Richard Roeper.com: One of the worst movies of this or any other year. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: For its first two acts, the movie had me in its grip. Then it comes apart. Read more

Andrew O'Hehir, Salon.com: This movie boasts a few lurid, gothic shocks and culminates in a startling outburst of violence, but it's got nothing to say (beyond the repeated insistence that it's got many dark and troubling things to say). Read more

Adam Litovitz, Globe and Mail: The film doesn't offer the sense of release, or of surprise, that it seems to take for granted. Read more

Bruce Demara, Toronto Star: A clever thriller, bolstered by three great performances. Read more

Alonso Duralde, TheWrap: Fans of all-star catastrophes are advised to see it early and often. Read more

Ben Walters, Time Out: The clue's in the title: don't go. Read more

Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out: Why wait for the next M. Night Shyamalan fiasco to vent your spleen when another director has beaten him to it? Read more

Claudia Puig, USA Today: Someone should have stopped Red Lights. Read more

Peter Debruge, Variety: Instead of adding to the experience, the pic's ill-conceived twists amount to a severe miscalculation on Cortes' part. Read more

Nick Pinkerton, Village Voice: By the finale ... Red Lights has become unbelievable in a way that can't possibly have been intended. Read more