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The celebrated television series ended six years ago and it has been nine years since the last feature film. Surely even the most dedicated X-Files addict must have long given up any hope of getting another fix? Not only have Agents Mulder and Scully returned to the big screen, but director/co-writer and series creator Chris Carter has come up with a taut, atmospheric thriller that does not require intimate knowledge of what went before. The X-Files: I Want to Believe works very well indeed as a stand-alone movie.
(Indeed, Gillian Anderson, who reprises her role as Dana Scully, admitted to American television talk show host Jay Leno that she had forgotten her character had had a baby until she read Carter's ingenious screenplay).
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