Is The X Files actually good?

The X Files sits in the 59.4% percentile against all 52,376 ranked films, meaning it scores above 59.4% of them.

How does The X Files compare to similar films?

Within Films · 1990s, The X Files lands in the 58.0% percentile. The cohort comparison exists because a global rank flatters or punishes a film for its category rather than its quality.

How many reviewers is The X Files's score based on?

204 calibrated reviewers stand behind The X Files's score.

1998

global pct

59.4

Film · 1998 · Films · 1990s

The X Files

Name: The X Files
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Released: 1998

Scored from 204 calibrated IMDb reviewers. Cohort: Films · 1990s (4,082 peers).

59.4%

Global percentile

vs. all 52,376 ranked titles

58.0%

In-cohort percentile

Films · 1990s · 4,082 titles

77.2%

AI-adjusted percentile

204 calibrated reviewers

Summary

FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully investigate the bombing of a federal building in Dallas, which leads them to uncover a vast conspiracy involving a shadowy syndicate and an ancient extraterrestrial virus. Their pursuit of the truth takes them from the Texas desert to the Antarctic ice, threatening both their careers and their lives.

The X Files (1998) is a film IMDb files under the adventure, drama and mystery genres.

204 IMDb reviewers are calibrated for this title, and those are the ones the calibrated score reads; a separate, broader pool of 217 reviewers with at least two reviews each feeds the raw-average track. 4,081 other films from the 1990s form the cohort it is ranked inside.