REVIEW: Robert De Niro' thriller 'Red Lights' dimmed by gimmicks, but keeps viewers guessing
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"Red Lights," starring Robert De Niro, Sigourney Weaver and Cillian Murphy, is a fun caper thinly veiled as a supernatural thriller - a mystery loaded with all the tricks and devices recently made popular by M. Night Shyamalan.

Gimmicks and all, "Red Lights" is an astute psychological puzzle that flows much more naturally than Shyamalan's recent cinematic litterings.  Writer and director Rodrigo Cortés ("Buried") gives us a sophisticated, yet uneven, game of cat and mouse - an entertaining debate between science and the paranormal.

Weaver is excellent as Dr. Margaret Matheson, a paranormal investigator (a real life Ghostbuster, if you will) who, along with her assistant Tom Buckley (Murphy) debunks paranormal activities like ghost sightings, séances, mind reading and faith healing by looking for 'red lights' -- signs or mistakes that reveal the medium in question to be a fraud.

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