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REVIEW: A Preposterously Talented Cast Enlivens Muddled Red Lights

REVIEW: A Preposterously Talented Cast Enlivens Muddled Red Lights

Red Lights, the new film from Buried director Rodrigo Cortés, weds an earnest, simplified exploration of the nature of faith with a goofy, gussied-up B-movie plot about a pair of academics who travel around debunking extrasensory phenomenon. As marriages go, it's a troubled one, but it certainly makes for some interesting fights across the dinner table.
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The 5 Films Likeliest to Ignite a Sundance 2012 Bidding War

The 5 Films Likeliest to Ignite a Sundance 2012 Bidding War

No matter how many gifting suites, D-list "celebrities" and/or head-splitting parties the malevolent forces of modern commerce may stuff into the wintry idyll of Park City over the next week, we'll always have the movies. And as usual, "we" also means studios and distributors with money to burn and release slates to fill. Let the Sundance bidding wars begin!
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