The movie works like thrillers used to work, before they were required to contain villains the size of buildings.Read Full Review »
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Salon.com: Stephanie Zacharek
Duchovny gives a nicely shaped performance here -- he still has the ability to suggest the boyish eagerness beneath Fox's blasé demeanor. But the movie really belongs to Anderson.Read Full Review »
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Time: Richard Corliss
For the uninitiated, The X Files: I Want to Believe may seem as musty and forbidding as one of those dank secrets that Mulder and Scully were forever digging up from some backyard, or fetid swamp, or their own aching hearts.Read Full Review »
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ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: Lisa Schwarzbaum
Older and sadder, Mulder and Scully are no longer sure they've got the energy to even ask if the truth is still out there. And it feels as if Carter is skeptical, too.Read Full Review »
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Slate: Dana Stevens
The problem with the movie's semisupernatural crime plot, though, isn't that the resolution is completely outlandish; it's that the outlandishness is insufficiently grounded in pseudoscience.Read Full Review »
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USA Today: Claudia Puig
It feels like a wan version of the show -- one that has lost its otherworldly edge.Read Full Review »
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Washington Post: Hank Stuever
A taut, well-acted, not very scary, not very hard to figure out serial-killer mystery.Read Full Review »
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ReelViews: James Berardinelli
An exercise in mediocrity. It's curious how little of the TV series' charm and appeal can be found in this uneven, plodding excuse for a reunion.Read Full Review »
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Philadelphia Inquirer: Steven Rea
Anderson, who's turned Brit in a number of TV series and films, including "Bleak House" and "The Last King of Scotland," is compelling in her white lab coat and surgical scrubs, and she brings some real tenderness to her tete-a-tetes with Mulder.Read Full Review »
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ROLLING STONE: Peter Travers
In not knowing who it needs to please, I Want to Believe pleases no one.Read Full Review »
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