The X-Files (1998) movie poster

The X-Files (1998)

"Fight the future."
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👍 85%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 63%
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Runtime
2h 1m
Country
United States of America, Canada
Language
English
TMDB Rating
6.9/10 (1,765 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
66%
Metacritic
60

Cast

David Duchovny as Agent Fox Mulder · 67% avg
Gillian Anderson as Agent Dana Scully · 66% avg
Mitch Pileggi as Assistant Director Walter Skinner · 72% avg
William B. Davis as The Cigarette-Smoking Man · 70% avg
John Neville as The Well-Manicured Man · 78% avg
Martin Landau as Kurtzweil · 72% avg
Jeffrey DeMunn as Bronschweig · 76% avg
Tom Braidwood as Frohike

Is The X-Files good?

Yes. 85% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics scored it lower at 63%, but audiences disagreed.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#96 / 750 · Mystery
Rank in its year
#32 / 116 · 1998
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By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

Mulder and Scully, now taken off the FBI's X Files cases, must find a way to fight the shadowy elements of the government to find out the truth about a conspiracy that might mean the alien colonization of Earth. Wikipedia ↗

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