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Friday 15 June 2012 10:03 BST

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Spookery meets scepticism in this tale of the uncanny.

Sigourney Weaver and Cillian Murphy play expert debunkers of the paranormal who seem to meet their match when a legendary blind psychic (Robert De Niro) comes out of retirement, having allegedly caused the fatal heart-attack of his sternest critic 30 years ago.

The mystery concerns whether De Niro is a fraud or not; he can bend spoons pretty easily, but can he also read minds and dispatch his enemies?

Writer-director Rodrigo Cortés can't keep a high portentousness from leaking into the mood. The philosophical talk of truth and illusion feels just a bit creaky after the sealed-coffin nightmare of his earlier (and brilliant) Buried.

But look out for a remarkable impersonation of the young De Niro by Eugenio Mira.

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