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The X-Files: Fight the Future (The X-Files: The Movie)

Sci-Fi. Mystery. Fantasy This 60-million-dollar science fiction suspense drama (marketed with an additional 25 million dollars), was adapted from the popular TV series The X-Files -- arriving in theaters while the Emmy-winning series was still being aired, continuing plot threads familiar to many of the series' 25 million viewers, and featuring several familiar recurring characters introduced during the previous five TV seasons. In 15,000 B.C., a strange ... [+]
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United States
Entertainment Weekly
"Dark, funny, paranoid, arbitrary, humming with tamped-down eroticism and in love with all things weird: That's the good news."
United States
The Washington Post
"The X-Files movie is really just a two-hour teaser for the series's sixth season. And little else" 
United States
ReelViews
"Offers two hours of solid entertainment"
United States
Chicago Sun-Times
"As pure movie, The X-Files more or less works. As a story, it needs a sequel, a prequel, and Cliff Notes (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of four)" 
United States
SFGATE
"Neither true believers nor newcomers to the phenomenon will be disappointed" 
United States
The Washington Post
"The X-Files movie is really just a two-hour teaser for the series's sixth season. And little else." 
United States
AV Club
"It's a smart, exciting, involving film that's true to its source, which is all it really needs to be"
United States
Variety
"Falls somewhere in between standing on its own feet as a real movie worth the price of a ticket and merely being a glorified TV episode" 
United Kingdom
Empire
"The X-Files can stand proud as a genuine movie with a beginning, a middle and an end, two charismatic leads and a franchise ahead of it."
United States
USA Today
"I entered the screening for The X-Files: Fight the Future with myriad questions... I left with disappointing answers"
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