Rotten
The X-Files movie is really just a two-hour teaser for the series's sixth season. And little else.
Rita Kempley, Washington Post
The X-Files
Fight the future.
1998 · 2h 1m · PG-13
Mystery, Science Fiction, Thriller
Directed by
Rob Bowman
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The X-Files
Overview
Mulder and Scully, now taken off the FBI's X Files cases, must find a way to fight the shadowy elements of the government to find out the truth about a conspiracy that might mean the alien colonization of Earth.
Director and cast
- Rob Bowman Director
- David Duchovny as Fox Mulder
- Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully
- Mitch Pileggi as Walter Skinner
- William B. Davis as Carl Busch
- John Neville as The Well-Manicured Man
- Martin Landau as Kurtzweil
- Jeffrey DeMunn as Bronschweig
- Tom Braidwood as Frohike
- Blythe Danner as Cassidy
- Terry O'Quinn as Michaud
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
66%
Tomatometer
Fresh
Dark, funny, paranoid, arbitrary, humming with tamped-down eroticism and in love with all things weird: That's the good news.
Owen Gleiberman, Entertainment Weekly
Fresh
Stylish, scary, sardonically funny and at times just plain gross.
Michael O'Sullivan, Washington Post
Rotten
As it is, pic serves up set-pieces and a measure of scope that are beyond TV size but remain rather underwhelming by feature standards.
Todd McCarthy, Variety
Rotten
Only two scenes in this spin-off are worth the time of followers of the TV series.
Lisa Alspector, Chicago Reader
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