
Roger Ebert
As pure movie, The X-Files more or less works. As a story, it needs a sequel, a prequel, and Cliff Notes.
Full reviewMulder 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 colonisation of Earth.
As pure movie, The X-Files more or less works. As a story, it needs a sequel, a prequel, and Cliff Notes.
Full review(It is) 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.
Full reviewThe film awkwardly attempts to fill in five years’ worth of back story...
Full reviewThose who have never seen the series may be at a loss to fathom the appeal of the Duchovny-Anderson duo.
Full reviewDavid Duchovny and Gillian Anderson are enormously sympathetic heroes.
Full review(It) serves up set-pieces and a measure of scope that are beyond TV size but remain rather underwhelming by feature standards.
Full reviewAs a movie, The X-Files is studiously lurid and watchable hokum, but that’s all it is.
Full reviewThe X Files is available to stream in New Zealand now on Google Play and Apple TV and Disney+.
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