The X-Files: I Want to Believe Critic Reviews

The movie works like thrillers used to work, before they were required to contain villains the size of buildings.Read the full review

Knowing nothing about "X-Files" is no impediment to appreciating this for the well-acted, adult piece of work that it is.Read the full review

Older and sadder, Mulder and Scully are no longer sure they've got the energy to even ask if the truth is still out there. And it feels as if Carter is skeptical, too.Read the full review

The warming glow of nostalgia only goes so far, with one's level of forgiveness likely dictated by where they reside along the "X-Files" fan continuum.Read the full review

Overall, the film plays like an improbably skewed but comparatively routine criminal procedural that would have served the original show well as an extended season opener or sweeps-week contender.Read the full review

It feels like a wan version of the show -- one that has lost its otherworldly edge.Read the full review

The problem with the movie's semisupernatural crime plot, though, isn't that the resolution is completely outlandish; it's that the outlandishness is insufficiently grounded in pseudoscience.Read the full review

A taut, well-acted, not very scary, not very hard to figure out serial-killer mystery.Read the full review

In not knowing who it needs to please, I Want to Believe pleases no one.Read the full review