The X Files
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation | Release Date: June 19, 1998 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
60
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 23 Critic Reviews
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11
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12
Negative:
0
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Washington PostRita Kempley
The X-Files movie is really just a two-hour teaser for the series's sixth season. And little else. You will feel exactly like Mulder when he says, "How many times have we been right here before, Scully? So close to the truth?" Read full review
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Los Angeles TimesKenneth Turan
With its shrewd mixture of paranoia and the paranormal, the way its elaborate mythology combines enigmatic phenomena with potent cabals intent on running the world, The X-Files experience resembles "Twin Peaks" crossed with "The Twilight Zone." Read full review
60
SlateDavid Edelstein
The X-Files isn't so much a bad movie as it is a crackerjack piece of television. It's crisply made--not sodden like many of the "Star Trek" pictures. But it's as annoyingly open-ended as the rest of the series' episodes. Read full review
60
EmpireNeil Jeffries
The X-Files can stand proud as a genuine movie with a beginning, a middle and an end, two charismatic leads and a franchise ahead of it. Read full review
60
Film ThreatRon Wells
The problem is, the main conspiracy of the show is so vast, you have to walk around it a couple of times before you can see what it is. Read full review
50
The New YorkerBruce Diones
Ultimately disappointing--it's bigger budgeted, but somehow less engrossing when played outside the solitary intimacy of the tube. It'll be a great video flick. Read full review
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VarietyTodd McCarthy
Falls somewhere in between standing on its own feet as a real movie worth the price of a ticket and merely being a glorified TV episode refitted for theaters. Read full review
50
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)Rick Groen
What we have here is a pretty good TV show huffed and puffed into a rather mediocre film. Read full review
50
SalonJoyce Millman
It's a two-hour episode of the show, except with better production values and a nicer wardrobe for Scully. Read full review
50
New York Daily NewsJami Bernard
Truth is, it' not very good.
50
USA TodayDennis Moore
I entered the screening for The X-Files: Fight the Future with myriad questions... I left with disappointing answers. [19 June 1998, p. 7E]
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TV Guide MagazineMaitland McDonagh
Essentially a supersize episode that ignores a slew of fifth-season developments and adds yet another monster to the mix, one that owes a striking debt to "Alien." Read full review
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