The X-Files: I Want to Believe Reviews

Movie Reviews

• The X-Files: I Want to Believe lacks big ideas, meaningful character interaction, and a sense of energy

  by James Berardinelli [Reelviews ]

• plodding supernatural thriller

  Review rate : C- by Alex Markerson [E! Online ]

• Low in budget, inspiration and excitement

  by Colin Covert [Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune ]

• like a pretty good season finale rather than a big-screen triumph

  Review rate : C+ by Travis Nichols [Seattle Post Intelligencer ]

• it's good to see Mulder and Scully back, even though they haven't quite brought their best with them

  by David Mercier [FilmJudge ]

• inexcusably dull and completely unnecessary retread of a film

  by Chris Barsanti [Filmcritic.com ]

• Gloomy and serpentine

  by Steven Rea [Philadelphia Inquirer ]

• fatally flawed

  by Duane Dudek [Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ]

• Baggy, draggy, oddly timed and strangely off the mark

  by Manohla Dargis [NY Times ]

• an okay thriller whose influences will be all-too clear to b-movie buffs

  by Maitland McDonagh [TV Guide ]

• "The X-Files: I Want to Believe" is atmospheric and moves briskly

  by Lou Lumenick [New York Post ]
• Reviewed by Michael Machosky [Pittsburgh Tribune-Review ]
• Reviewed by Bob Strauss [LA Daily News ]
• Reviewed by Claudia Puig [USA Today ]
• Reviewed by Mick LaSalle [San Francisco Chronicle ]

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