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chron.com - 7/25/2008
The X-Files: I Want to Believe | Movie reviews | Chron.com - Houston Chronicle
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In the argot of The X-Files , the Truth Is Out There. Too bad it's just the plot of a trashy horror flick. You want the truth? I'll give you the truth. The truth is, The X-Files: I Want to Believe is an atmospheric but disappointing bundle of clich s. It brings back David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson as FBI agents Mulder and Scully, he the sardonic believer of extraterrestrials and paranormal ...

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Weekend Movie Forecast: X-Files or Step Brothers?
Gothamist — ... , “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.” Amy Biancolli at the Houston Chronicle is even more succinct: “The truth is, they're boring now.” ...

The X-Files: I Want to Believe it's a good movie
PopWatch — ... on the year I spent tracking the movie's mysterious march to theaters, I sure as hell have been shocked by the dismissive, occasionally vicious beating it's taken from critics. My hometown Houston Chronicle , for example, gave it one star and called it "stupid, lackadaisical and schlocky." My mother, on the other hand, walked into an H-Town multiplex on Wednesday, and walked out calling the movie "wonderful." So, what's going on? Are my mother and I just that stupid, lackadaisical and shlocky when it comes to our taste in movies? I'd like to think that's not true. And ...

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