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Review: 'The X-Files: I Want to Believe'
latimes.com - 7/25/2008
Review: 'The X-Files: I Want to Believe'
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The second feature film based on Fox's hit TV show is so down to earth, it's almost mundane. > When Gillian Anderson first reunites with her "X-Files" co-star David Duchovny in this, the second spinoff movie from the sci-fi TV series, she finds him much as she did in the pilot episode 15 years ago: with his back to her, crouched over a crowded desk. On the wall is the same fuzzily photographed poster of a ...

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Jezebel:  The Truth Is, Mulder & Scully Are Just “Two 40-Something Adults With Trust Issues” [Critical Mass]

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The Truth Is, Mulder & Scully Are Just “Two 40-Something Adults With Trust Issues” [Critical Mass]
Jezebel — ... Mulder-Scully chemistry seems to have evaporated. David Duchovny is still engagingly low-key as the truth-seeking Fox Mulder, while Gillian Anderson as Dana Scully seems to have become even more dour. Grounded in science, her doctor character was always serious, but she has lost some of what made her more human: passionate emotions and flashes of dry humor. There's a discernible lack of sparks during a bedroom scene. Sure, it's meant to be cozy rather than sexy, but it feels forced. The Los AngelesTimes : Scully, who now works as a surgeon at a Catholic hospital (Our Lady of ...

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