The X-Files: I Want to Believe

David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson reprise their roles as Fox Mulder and Dana Scully with this long-delayed big-screen continuation that revives the series six years after it headed off the air in 2002. Creator Chris Carter returns to direct, co-writing the script with series veteran Frank Spotnitz ...more

Disclaimer: this review will not expound upon The X-Files television show. Not a word about Mulder’s (David Duchovny) sister, extra terrestrial beings, or unresolved plot points which series aficionados long to have resolved in The X-Files: I Want to Believe, the second onscreen adaptation of the popular Fox show. Director and show creator Chris Carter was insistent that this picture be a “stand alone” piece requiring no knowledge of Mulder and Scully’s (Gillian Anderson) previous investigative ...more