Red Lights is a 2012 psychological supernatural thriller film[3] written, directed, produced and edited by Rodrigo Cortés and starring Cillian Murphy, Sigourney Weaver, Robert De Niro, Toby Jones, Joely Richardson, and Elizabeth Olsen.

The plot focuses on a physicist (Murphy) and a university psychology professor (Weaver), both of whom specialise in debunking supernatural phenomena, and their attempt at discrediting a renowned psychic (De Niro) whose greatest critic mysteriously died 30 years prior.

Instead, they monitor the performance of a "faith healer" and former student of Silver's and, by using sophisticated surveillance equipment, are able to expose him as a fraud who uses a earpiece and is fed information from assistants elsewhere in the theater.

As the media frenzy continues, Silver agrees to participate in an investigation proposed by an academic from the same university that employed Matheson, even though she previously pointed out flaws in their testing methods.

Cortés spent a year and a half researching and writing the screenplay, studying both sides of the psychic powers issue offered by skeptics and believers.

The site's critics consensus reads, "Wasting the talents of an impressive cast on a predictable mystery, Red Lights lacks the clairvoyance to know what audiences want.

[9] In The New York Times, Jeannette Catsoulis praised the early section of the film for its "smart, talky screenplay and tense direction," but criticized the end for being "derailed by elaborate pyrotechnics and a bathroom brawl."

[10] Michael Nordine of Slant Magazine gave the film one and a half stars out of a possible four, and wrote, "Red Lights implodes so spectacularly that it’s almost worth the price of admission."

Similarly to Catsoulis, Nordine wrote positively of film's first hour, but concluded, "its official jumping-the-shark moment is so jarringly ill-conceived as to immediately erase nearly every trace of good faith Cortés has thus far inspired."

[11] William Goss gave a more positive review in IndieWire, writing, "while Red Lights isn’t terrifically scary, it is thrilling in other ways, constantly playful and often tongue-in-cheek as it works through the hokey conventions of the genre."