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(1 - 36) of 36 OFCS Rating: 42% Rotten Page   1   "While Duchovny, Anderson & Connolly deliver riveting performances here, the story fails to provide them with material to match their talents."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker 3/5 "In a summer that's seen its fair share of outsized spectacle, everything about X-Files: I Want to Believe is somber, subdued, and in the end rather minor."   PopMatters   Bill Gibron B+ "Believe is not a feature that provides instant results; instead, even with a handful of faults, it gets under the skin, offering the faithful a rewarding odyssey with these unlikely knights of the unknown."   BrianOrndorf.com   Brian Orndorf 1.5/5 "The only mystery worth answering here is: Why did they bother?"   Filmcritic.com   Chris Barsanti C "For all of the fan hullabaloo around its plotline, The X-Files: I Want to Believe is little more than an extended if atmospheric version of the former television show."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey 6/10 "In The X-Files: I Want to Believe, ooky canted shots of trundling agents in "FBI"-emblazoned jackets seem like refreshing counterprogramming amid the rumble of the season's action movies."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs C+ "Muddled and contrived spin off episode from the popular television series."   Ozus' World Movie Reviews   Dennis Schwartz 2.5/4 "As a genre effort, it's strictly forgettable, but as an emotional addendum into the ongoing lives of Fox Mulder and Dana Scully, it is satisfying and bittersweet."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman C+ "As a TV episode, it would be unmemorable but OK. As a theatrical feature requiring paid admission and a two-hour time commitment, uh, not so much."   Film.com   Eric D. Snider C "Even those who retain great affection for Mulder and Scully are likely to find this reunion disappointingly routine and overly glum and grim."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek 3/5 "A compelling supernatural thriller with Scully and Mulder peering into the darkness and trying to fathom the inexplicable."   Spirituality and Practice   Frederic and Mary Ann Brussat 2/4 "Rather than providing a springboard to a movie franchise, this film puts the final nail in The X-Files' coffin. Mulder and Scully can now fade into pop culture history."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli "The plot is mundane and seems pieced together from bits from (better) episodes of this now defunct TV show."   Sci-Fi Movie Page   James O'Ehley 2/5 "There are questions about faith and ethics and redemption in The X-Files: I Want to Believe ... Carter and his team want to give us reasons to believe; I just don't think they gave us any reason to care."   Cinematical   James Rocchi 3/10 "Click here to read review"   vj.net.ua   Jaroslav Vishtaljuk 2/4 "Because the show has been off the air for so many years now, audiences may wonder why these characters haven't moved on from their obsessively singular points of view."   Slant Magazine   Jeremiah Kipp 2.5/4 "Fans of the TV show may enjoy seeing Mulder and Scully back in action, but there's little in this run-of-the-mill mystery to attract the uninitiated."   Big Picture Big Sound   Joe Lozito 1.5/5 "Unfortunately for this movie, television has evolved well past this degree of silliness and spoon feeding, leaving our beloved X-Files in the vault. I wanted to believe it would be fun movie, but this was definitely time spent."   Cinerina   Karina Montgomery "Think of Carter, then, as a reverse-Argento (a so-so director and a terrific writer, especially when it comes to structure) and of I Want To Believe as his Deep Red (a wintry-white Rorschach stained, occasionally, with crimson)."   UGO   Keith Uhlich 1.0/4.0 "... (not) the tribute to what made the series great that we'd hoped for, just a sad reminder of why we lost interest to begin with."   MovieCrypt.com   Kevin A. Ranson 2.5/4 "To Carter and Spotnitz's credit, such weighty concerns aren't the stuff of most mainstream genre movies. But they're also not sufficiently gripping to transform a middling thriller into something truly provocative or haunting."   TV Guide's Movie Guide   Maitland McDonagh 0.5/3 "Después de un retiro de seis años, el retorno de Mulder y Scully a las pantallas ha sido, irónicamente, como la vuelta de Britney Spears a los escenarios."   Off-Off-Critica   MalaBesta "[S]cience fiction drama with the emphasis on the drama... [T]here are no monsters [here] except the all-too-human kind, and no demons except the all-too-familiar ones that plague us all."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson 3/4 "There's a very strong spiritual underside to The X-Files: I Want to Believe. It gives the story a lot of emotional weight, while also making the creepy stuff that much more disturbing."   Aisle Seat   Mike McGranaghan B- "It can coast on the affection of its devoted fans, but won't make believers out of anyone."   Beliefnet   Nell Minow C "[Carter's] reasonably firm grasp of thriller mechanics can't enliven a tale that amounts to simply a mundane, overlong one of the show's stand-alone, mythology-free episodes."   Lessons of Darkness   Nick Schager 2/5 "Minha familiaridade com os personagens não é o bastante para que a simples nostalgia em revê-los sirva para equilibrar as diversas falhas que, como longa-metragem, este Eu Quero Acreditar exibe."   Cinema em Cena   Pablo Villaca 1/5 "In the ten years since the first film and six years since the ending of the series, couldn't they have come up with something more interesting than a plot that suggests what "They Saved Hitler's Brain" might have been like in the hands of Andy Milligan?"   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 3/5 "It's like an especially gloomy episode of the series, stretched a bit too long. And we miss the ad breaks."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 3/5 "Rather than make an action-mystery, the filmmakers opt for an introspective examination of the fragility of faith and hope. It's a bold move that doesn't quite work."   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline 4/5 "What the movie boils down to is a rather queasy rumination on good science vs. bad science, good faith vs. bad faith."   eFilmCritic.com   Rob Gonsalves C+ "If you are an X-Files fan, this is a journey worth taking with enough comforting familiarity to make it satisfying. If you know nothing about the X-Files, the film stands on its own well enough."   Laramie Movie Scope   Robert Roten 3/5 "A lot of those [stand-alone] episodes have been phenomenal, but this movie is not nearly on that level."   Film Threat   Rory L. Aronsky "Carter doesn't try to meet or exceed fans' expectations so much as create an intimately scaled dramatic universe for his fiercely beloved characters, Dana Scully and Fox Mulder, to inhabit, circa 2008."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek 5/10 "There are no alien abductions, no space invaders, no conspiracy theories, nolthing spooky or supernatural - just a routine crime drama, like "C.S.I.: West Virginia.""   SSG Syndicate   Susan Granger 5/10 "Not close to the worst X-Files story ever filmed. It is nothing more dire than a colossal irrelevancy."   Antagony & Ecstasy   Tim Brayton  (1 - 36) of 36 OFCS Rating: 42% Rotten Page   1