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Movie Review

The X-Files: I Want to Believe

*1/2

Directed by: Chris Carter

Written by: Carter and Frank Spotnitz

Starring: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson,Amanda Peet, Xzibit, and Billy Connolly

At: Boston Common, Fenway, suburbs

Running time: 100 minutes

Rated: PG-13

We may not see it often, but Gillian Anderson has a wonderful face for movies. It's long, with big features that don't give a lot away. She would have been a huge star in the 1930s and '40s, when the good screenplays had snap and a half-awake director would have made the most of her smolder and intelligence. Instead, her career has been bound up, in one way or another, with Dana Scully, the FBI agent whom Anderson has been ...

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