movies.nytimes.com - 7/25/2008
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Baggy, draggy, oddly timed and strangely off the mark, “The X-Files: I Want to Believe” is the generally bad-news follow-up to the show’s first feature-film incarnation. >
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The House Next Door —
... Some X-Files: I Want To Believe reviews: my own at UGO (longer one to come at Reverse Shot); Jeremiah Kipp at Slant Magazine; Chris Barsanti at Filmcritic.com; Alonso Duralde at MSNBC; Andrea Chase at Killer Movie Reviews; Roger Ebert at The Chicago Sun-Times; Stephanie Zacharek at Salon; and Manohla Dargis in The New York Times. ["Think of Carter, then, as a reverse-Argento (a so-so director ...
Fata Morgana: The Best X-Files Episodes [Movies]
Gawker —
... The review for the new X-Files: I Want To Believe flick are pretty grim. Manohla Dargis in the Times calls it "baggy, draggy, oddly timed and strangely off the mark," and Dana Stevens at Slate ...
The X-Files: I Want to Believe.
GreenCine Daily —
... ," writes Manohla Dargis in the New York Times. "The first X-Files movie, released before the show ended, added nothing substantive.... The new film, [Chris] ...
The Truth Is, Mulder & Scully Are Just “Two 40-Something Adults With Trust Issues” [Critical Mass]
Jezebel —
... : Scully, who now works as a surgeon at a Catholic hospital (Our Lady of Sorrows, nudge nudge), was always a wrestling act for Anderson, who had to fight against the character's morose, doubting-Thomas side, not to mention prosaic literary tendencies. Anderson loses the match here: Scully has ossified into one of the most humorless characters to suck the life out of a summer movie. The New York Times : That relationship still simmers, though at a reduced temperature. There’s nothing stirring the air between Mulder and Scully, who, having left the bureau, come across as unmoored ...
Weekend Movie Forecast: X-Files or Step Brothers?
Gothamist —
... , or is Space Chimps just sucking all the air out of the room? The Times’s Manohla Dargis says, “I wanted to believe. But with his big-screen blowup of his great and weird television series The X-Files, Chris Carter has turned me into a reluctant skeptic. Baggy, draggy, oddly timed and strangely off the mark.” ...
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"The X-Files: I Want to Believe" Review —
Film Gecko
Movie: The X-Files: I Want to Believe * Official Site * Preview & Trailer
In Theaters: July 25, 2008
Runtime: 100 minutes
Directed by: Chris Carter
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for violent and disturbing content and thematic material.
Gecko Rating:
After waiting six years for this movie, I have a feeling that X-Files fans will be sorely disappointed. While ...
You Better Believe That David Duchovny Can Make You Laugh —
PopSugar
The day after The X-Files: I Want to Believe had its big LA premiere , David Duchovny stopped by The Late Show looking handsome in his jeans and blazer. Unfortunately, the movie isn't getting great reviews, including from Buzz — maybe just enjoy the X-Files trivia quiz instead. David didn't talk much about the film, but he had us laughing with his stories of his first Summer job, how he's ...
Movie News Grab Bag July 25, 2008 —
Screen Rant
In today’s Movie News Grab Bag, I’ve got a confirmation on the director and writer of the RoboCop sequel, X-Files: I Want To Believe is getting poor reviews, and my theory on why Ant-Man isn’t on the release slate yet.
RoboCop 4 (unless they ignore parts 2 and 3 and do a reboot): Darren Aronofsky, director of Pi and the one movie I liked but I’ll never ...
Actors sidelined by lame mystery in new “X-Files” movie —
Scene-Stealers
In this age of procedural crime dramas like “CSI” and “Law & Order: Endless Spinoff Unit,” it’s surprising that “The X-Files: I Want to Believe” chucks all that out the window and is content to rely almost solely on the same faith vs. science debate that Fox Mulder (David Duchovny) and Dana Scully (Gillian Anderson) had for seven seasons on the popular TV show.
It is a welcome treat to ...
X-Files 2 Reviews - Disappointing —
Movie Moron
The X-Files 2 reviews have landed, and they’re disappointingly mediocre.
The X-Files TV show ran from 1993 to 2002, with the first movie released in 1998. X-Files: I Want To Believe is the only feature X-Files creator Chris Carter has ever directed, and acts as a standalone story rather than getting involved with the dense alien mythology of the show.
Here’s what the critics are ...
X-Files Hollywood Premier —
Celebrity Gossip by Celebridiot
A very pregnant Gillian Anderson and David Duchovny worked the red carpet last night at Mann’s Chinese Theater in Hollywood for the premiere of their long awaited sequel The X-Files: I Want to Believe . The film itself is being met with some mixed reviews, but that won’t keep away die hard fans that have been clamoring for a sequel since the original hit theaters. There are ...
The X-Files - Essentials / Revelations —
Screen Rant
Are you looking forward to the new X-Files film? Are you an old fan of the series who hasn’t seen the iconic show since it was first aired? How about a first-timer who thinks that the trailer for the movie - The X-Files: I Want To Believe looks interesting? What about an obsessive fan that can’t get enough of Mulder and Scully?
If you are any of the above, then The X-Files ...
Alaska… —
The Reviewer
I am off to Alaska for 2 weeks, so I will not be writing reviews, I am sorry. For the next 2 weeks you are going to have to check out some other reviewers. Why not check out, The Critical Critics , Quit Your Day Job , or Single Sentence Movie Reviews , for all your movie review needs, I will be back in August.
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Two Quick Reviews —
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I've been away and will be seeing and reviewing The Dark Knight this week but for now here are a couple lightning quick reviews of two movies I saw last week. 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days - $8 4 Months is an incredible movie and may be the most emotionally intense film I've seen in years. The story follows a University student who is helping her roommate obtain an abortion in communist ...
The X-Files: I Want to Believe —
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Film Reviews: If the first "X-Files" movie landed in the midst of the TV show's run and near the height of its popularity, the second -- far more modest in scope and ambition -- comes six years after the program signed off. Both, however, share a ...
The X-Files: I Want to Believe —
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Film Reviews: If the first "X-Files" movie landed in the midst of the TV show's run and near the height of its popularity, the second -- far more modest in scope and ambition -- comes six years after the program signed off. Both, however, share a ...
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