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Red Lights (2004)
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Reviews Counted:30
Fresh:26
Rotten:4
Average Rating:7.4/10
Consensus: Red Lights is a taut, character-driven thriller, set against the debris-strewn battleground of a failing marriage.
Theatrical Release:Aug 20, 2004 Limited
Box Office: $515,992
Synopsis: Starring French cinema legends Carole Bouquet (THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE) and Jean-Pierre Darroussin (UN AIR DE FAMILLE), director Cedric Kahn's thriller, based on a novel by Georges Simenon,... [More]
Starring: Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Carole Bouquet, Vincent Deniard, Carline Paul
Director: Cedric Kahn
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Reviews for Red Lights
Top CriticPuts a tense, deteriorating marriage on a highway-bound collision course with a killer.
12/24/04
Top CriticBefore it turns into a thriller, and goes badly awry, Red Lights paints a devastating little portrait of a marriage on the rocks.
12/23/04
Top CriticThriller/mystery buffs might find the narrative slow; the thriller elements aren't introduced until the movie is nearly half over, and the mystery starts even later. But a dandy payoff will reward those who are patient.
12/02/04
Top CriticThe most ambiguously compelling romance around.
10/19/04
Top CriticSubtle and stylish, Red Lights will remind moviegoers not only of Ms. [Flannery] O'Connor but also of Alfred Hitchcock.
10/14/04
Top CriticLike Hitchcock, Kahn uses dry humor and keen observation of human character (and character flaws) to spin a compelling brand of menace.
10/14/04
Top CriticThis French ... opens so promisingly that it's tres tragique when, two-thirds along, it makes a U-turn into the melodramatic and maudlin.
10/12/04
Top CriticThe film, like the cheap double-scotches quaffed down by the central character, leaves a distinctly sour aftertaste that's hard to wash away the morning after.
10/08/04
Top CriticAs thrillers go, this one is domestic, mundane and hypnotic.
10/08/04
Top CriticAn eerily affecting domestic drama combining elements of The Lost Weekend with Lost Highway.
10/08/04
Top CriticA weird road-trip spin on Sam Peckinpah's Straw Dogs.
10/08/04
Top CriticPsychologically dense and often unnerving, Red Lights takes you into the most dangerous territory of all -- the twisted mind of a man, whose facade crumbles over the course of an evening.
10/08/04
Top CriticRed Lights blends the blind tension of Hitchcock with a French sense of inevitability, leading us back and forth between action and surrender before ending just where it should.
10/08/04
Top CriticIs it a memorable cinematic experience? Oddly, no.
10/08/04
Top CriticOne of the best thrillers I have seen this year: tight, taut, and unpredictable.
10/07/04
Top CriticUnexpected in every way.
10/07/04
Top CriticIt evokes the spirit of Hitchcock and Highsmith, as Antoine undergoes an all-night odyssey that redeems his manhood, at the expense, naturally, of all good behavior.
09/30/04
Top CriticThe novel from which writer-director Cedric Kahn adapted Red Lights was, ironically, set in the United States over an arid Labor day weekend. Kahn's update may be more air-conditioned, but it's just as claustrophobic, creepy and allegorical.
09/10/04
Top CriticTaut, atmospheric, impeccably made psychological thriller.
09/09/04
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