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33 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 88Chicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertChicago Sun-TimesRoger EbertThe movie works like thrillers used to work, before they were required to contain villains the size of buildings.
- 60TimeRichard CorlissTimeRichard CorlissFor 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.
- 58Seattle Post-IntelligencerSeattle Post-IntelligencerDoes nothing so much as stir up a pining for the show in its prime -- a darkly imaginative and wonderfully weird thing -- though it is always nice to see old friends, however mellowed by age they turn out to be.
- 50VarietyBrian LowryVarietyBrian LowryThe warming glow of nostalgia only goes so far, with one's level of forgiveness likely dictated by where they reside along the "X-Files" fan continuum.
- 50Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsChicago TribuneMichael PhillipsThe story is both a muddle and a drag.
- 50The Hollywood ReporterThe Hollywood ReporterOverall, the film plays like an improbably skewed but comparatively routine criminal procedural that would have served the original show well as an extended season opener or sweeps-week contender.
- 50Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaPhiladelphia InquirerSteven ReaAnderson, 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.
- A taut, well-acted, not very scary, not very hard to figure out serial-killer mystery.
- 30L.A. WeeklyScott FoundasL.A. WeeklyScott FoundasThe truth is still out there, like an unsold lawn chair at a garage sale, in this just plain lousy second big-screen outing for erstwhile FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.