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The X Files: I Want to Believe
2008
· Movie
· 104 min
D
MEANRANK
52/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #5063
- IMDb #4689
- Rotten Tomatoes #4660
- Metacritic #3490
- Letterboxd #4300
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #4623
+7 more
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #4882
- Metacritic Critics #3678
- Metacritic Audience #2892
- Douban #2534
- Kinopoisk #4407
- AlloCiné #5252
- Trakt #4195
Every rating
32–66
out of 100
Split
Lowest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 32, highest is Metacritic users on 66. Critics average 40, everyone else 55.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Former FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully are pulled back into the world of the paranormal. A disgraced priest claims to be having psychic visions connected to the disappearance of an FBI agent. Scully, now a doctor, is skeptical, while Mulder is eager to believe, forcing them to confront their past and a terrifying scientific conspiracy.
Details
- Director
- Chris Carter
- Writers
- Chris Carter, Frank Spotnitz
- Based on
- The X-Files
- Released
- 24 July 2008
- Country
- United States, Canada
- Language
- English
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Rated
- PG-13
- Budget
- $30.0M
- Box office
- $69.4M
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