Red Lights doesn't exactly work, but at least it fails in an interesting way.
'Red Lights': Paranormal Beliefs and Doubts "This situation also indicates that the movie takes place in a heightened reality, if not a downright alternate one, where paranormal activities and parapsychology are of such importance that a university funds not one, but three faculty positions dedicated to researching the subject. In this world, cable news breathlessly reports on every step of a retired psychic’s comeback—which draws sellout crowds in seconds—and someone else’s doubts about him wind up on page one of the newspaper."Click through to read the rest of the review at PopMatters.