1998 · mystery · sci-fi · thriller
The X-Files
Directed by Rob Bowman2h 1m1998
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.
Our read: The X-Files (1998) reads as a sombre, kinetic, surreal mystery · sci-fi · thriller entry — measured in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured mystery / sci-fi, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- intense
- inventive
- twisty
- epic-stakes
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