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
Mixed:
12
Negative:
0
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83
Entertainment WeeklyOwen Gleiberman
Dark, funny, paranoid, arbitrary, humming with tamped-down eroticism and in love with all things weird: That's the good news. Read full review
80
Washington PostMichael O'Sullivan
Like the TV show, The X-Files movie is stylish, scary, sardonically funny and at times just plain gross. Read full review
75
Chicago Sun-TimesRoger Ebert
As pure movie, The X-Files more or less works. As a story, it needs a sequel, a prequel, and Cliff Notes. Read full review
75
ReelViewsJames Berardinelli
Offers two hours of solid entertainment. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleBob Graham
Neither true believers nor newcomers to the phenomenon will be disappointed. Read full review
75
San Francisco ExaminerTim Goodman
In the movie, the truth will (and does) out itself. Mulder and Scully have seen the future and it's a giant leap for each of them to comprehend. Read full review
75
Christian Science MonitorDavid Sterritt
This is more than enough material for two hours of summer-movie fun, and The X-Files delivers said fun reasonably well. The action scenes are bigger and bolder than their small-screen counterparts. Read full review
70
The A.V. ClubKeith Phipps
It's a smart, exciting, involving film that's true to its source, which is all it really needs to be. Read full review
70
The New York TimesElvis Mitchell
Though both stars are sometimes eclipsed when the film strains for big action episodes, Mr. Duchovny sustains enough cool, deadpan intellect and suppressed passion to give the story a center. Ms. Armstrong has the harsher, more restrictive role, but she plays it with familiar hardboiled glamour. Read full review
70
L.A. WeeklyManohla Dargis
It's the brilliance of The X-Files to have turned Mulder's paranoid style into a function of cool. Mulder and Scully aren't just beautiful, smart, well-armed and seemingly impervious to the banalities of everyday life, such as cheap haircuts and ruinous love affairs--they're cool. Read full review
67
Austin ChronicleMarc Savlov
Solid, workmanlike stuff, and enough to keep the legions of X-philes sated until next September. And since I realize some of you are dying to know, no, Mulder's butt remains, as always, fully clothed. Read full review
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