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
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 Special Agent Fox Mulder
- Gillian Anderson as Special Agent Dana Scully
- Martin Landau as Alvin Kurtzweil
- Mitch Pileggi as Assistant Director Walter Skinner
- William B. Davis as The Cigarette-Smoking Man
- John Neville as The Well-Manicured Man
- Jeffrey DeMunn as Ben Bronschweig, M.D.
- Blythe Danner Cast
- Tom Braidwood Cast
- Terry O'Quinn Cast
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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