James Bond you Have Become Useful Again
In No Time to Die, Daniel Craig takes one last shot at playing James Bond.
MGM/UniversalNo Time to Die, the last motion picture to star Daniel Craig equally hush-hush agent James Bond, was a huge box office hit. The movie is an "epic, explosive and emotional swan song," says Richard Trenholm in CNET's No Time to Dice review, "that throws everything it has against the wall for a genuinely unique entry in the series." As we wait at present to see what comes next for the franchise, allow's run into where this newest 007 adventure falls in the list of all-time and worst Bond movies of all fourth dimension.
Across a total of 27 movies and six decades, the Bond franchise has provided us with countless thrills and more than than a few groans. Your personal favorite may depend a lot on when you started watching, and who was starring at the time -- the '90s with Pierce Brosnan? The '70s withRoger Moore? Most people oasis't been watching since 1962 when the 007 series got going, just those Sean Connery outings have largely held potent in the courtroom of public opinion. Whatever: It'due south always fun to look back, seeing how Eon Productions made the superspy an emblem of the times, an avatar of style and aman of many gadgets.
Speaking of looking back: At the 2022 Academy Awards ceremony on Sun, the Oscars paid homage to the 60 years of Bail movies with a fun montage: the tuxes! the cars! the gun-butt signature moves! Meanwhile, Billie Eilish and Finneas won the Oscar for best original song for the theme song for No Time to Die.
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If you don't know where to start with the Bond films, exist sure to check out our recommendations and full rundown on big-screen Bail. Or you can check out these James Bond movie rankings below, from worst to best. It'southward based on an amass of motion-picture show reviews, specific to when the movies came out, as compiled by CNET sister site Metacritic. The list accounts for every theatrical 007 release, not just the 25 from Eon Productions merely too 2 not-canonical entries: the 1967 version of Casino Royale, a trippy turn with multiple actors playing Bail (David Niven chief among them), and 1983's Never Say Never Again, featuring Connery in his second improvement.
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It doesn't, nevertheless, include the 1954 version of Casino Royale, a 50-minute TV playhouse production that introduced Ian Fleming'south hero to the world as "Jimmy" Bond, an American undercover agent. You tin observe that on YouTube, if you're curious.
Otherwise, we've got the whole roster of actors who've played Bail in the official franchise -- likewise Connery and Craig, that's Moore, Brosnan, Timothy Dalton andGeorge Lazenby.
James Bond movies ranked, from worst to best
27. A View to a Kill
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According to the critical consensus, Roger Moore isn't simply the star of the worst James Bond movie -- this snowboarding 1985 entry -- he'south the star of the worst James Bond movies, period. When combined and averaged, his 007 films produce a franchise-depression Metascore of 53.seven.
A View to a Impale was Moore'south seventh and last 007 movie. His co-stars included Christopher Walken as gleefully murderous villain Max Zorin and Grace Jones every bit Bond baddie (and eventual ally) May Day. The plot that Bond has to foil: Zorin'due south scheme to destroy Silicon Valley so he tin can control the market for figurer chips.
"The James Bail series has had its bummers, but aught before in the class of this 1," Pauline Kael wrote for The New Yorker.
Metascore: 40
26. The Man With the Golden Gun
MGM
As far as critics are concerned, this 1974 installment, Moore's second outing every bit 007, is another bottom-dweller in the James Bond franchise. "If y'all enjoyed the early Bond films as much every bit I did, you lot'd better skip this ane," Nora Sayre wrote in The New York Times.
The Homo With the Golden Gun, featuring Christopher Lee as the Bond villain and rival marksman Scaramanga and eventual Fantasy Island star Herve Villechaize as his henchman Nick Nack, grossed $97.6 million worldwide, the weakest box-office performance by whatever of the Roger Moore 007 films.
Metascore: 43
25. Casino Royale (1967)
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This offbeat, comic entry features a multitude of actors as James Bond. Merely more 007s practice not make things merrier -- or better. Variety chosen this version of Casino Royale "a film of astounding sloppiness" and "an insult to the Bond name."
This is one of the two noncanonical, non-Eon films in our rundown. (And for Bond completists -- sorry, we're not including the 1954 television set product of Casino Royale, which portrayed our hero as Jimmy Bond, and an American to kicking.)
1967's Casino Royale, featuring David Niven, Peter Sellers and Orson Welles, grossed a Bail-worst $41.7 one thousand thousand worldwide.
Metascore: 48
24. Tomorrow Never Dies
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The first of the four Pierce Brosnan Bond movies in this list gets credit for giving Michelle Yeoh an early on Hollywood showcase -- but for piddling else. According to Salon's Charles Taylor, this 1997 movie "scores zero in suspense, wit or class."
When averaged, Brosnan'south four James Bail movies post a 57.5 Metascore, the 2nd-lowest among 007 actors who take starred in at least 4 movies.
At the box role, Tomorrow Never Dies, featuring Jonathan Pryce every bit villain Elliot Carver, grossed $339.5 1000000 worldwide. That'due south on par with, but on the depression finish of, the other films of the Brosnan era.
Metascore: 52
23. For Your Eyes Only
MGM
Critics are kinder, if nonetheless absurd, to Roger Moore'southward fifth 007 gamble. In the Chicago Sun-Times, critic Roger Ebert wrote that the 1981 picture "is a competent James Bond thriller. … Just it's no more than than that."
Aside from its reviews, For Your Eyes Only is a success of the Roger Moore era: It earned an Oscar nomination for its Sheena Easton-crooned title song, and it grossed $195.3 million worldwide -- the second-best box function showing for a Moore installment.
Metascore: 54
21 (necktie). The Spy Who Loved Me
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Nominated for a franchise-best three Oscars, this 1977 Roger Moore adventure nonetheless rated mixed reviews from critics. "After the opening sequence," Newsweek's Maureen Orth wrote, "much of the activeness in The Spy Who Loved Me … is somewhat downhill."
The Spy Who Loved Me, featuring the first of two franchise appearances by Richard Kiel as the villainous Jaws, grossed $185.4 million worldwide, making it i of the biggest box office hits of its release year.
Metascore: 55
21 (tie). Live and Let Dice
MGM
Roger Moore's start James Bond picture show is, well, another middling effort -- at least per the critics. In retrospect, this 1973 film may have suffered past comparison with the simply-concluded Sean Connery era.
"Even the art direction -- long the Bond films' real underground weapon -- seems to have fallen to a shrunken budget," the Chicago Reader'south Dave Kehr wrote. "Not much fun."
At the box role, Alive and Let Die, co-starring Geoffrey Holder as the voodoo-practicing henchman Baron Samedi and Yaphet Kotto every bit caput bad guy Katanga/Mr. Big, and featuring the hit title song by Paul McCartney's Wings, was a big step upwardly from the Sean Connery film that preceded it, Diamonds Are Forever. Live and Permit Die grossed $161.8 million worldwide.
Metascore: 55
20. Die Another Day
MGM
The final Pierce Brosnan James Bond motion picture may have introduced the invisible car, but critics retrieve of this 2002 film as a retread, non an innovator. "Surely it will non be giving things away to tell you there'due south absolutely cipher new well-nigh the latest episode," Desson Thomson wrote in The Washington Post.
Co-starring and so-reigning Oscar winner Halle Berry as Bond girl Jinx Johnson, with Monty Python'southward John Cleese as Q, and featuring the striking title rails by Madonna, Die Some other Mean solar day grossed more money than whatsoever other Pierce Brosnan 007 film: $431.ix meg worldwide.
Metascore: 56
19. The Earth Is Not Enough
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This 1998 picture is the third Pierce Brosnan James Bond film. "This keeps 1 reasonably amused, titillated, and brain-dead for a little over two hours," Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote in the Chicago Reader.
The Globe Is Not Enough grossed a solid $361.7 million at the worldwide box part. It co-stars Robert Carlyle as the villain Renard, who feels no pain; Sophie Marceau every bit the strikingly conflicted Elektra Male monarch; and Denise Richards every bit a nuclear physicist.
Metascore: 57
17 (tie). Licence to Impale
MGM
The 2nd -- and final -- James Bond picture of the Timothy Dalton era gets good marks every bit an action movie, but not necessarily equally a 007 picture show. "James Bond might as well exist any of a dozen moving-picture show cops," the St. Louis Post-Acceleration's Joe Pollack wrote of this 1989 entry.
Licence to Kill, featuring Robert Davi as the drug lord villain Sanchez, Carey Lowell equally Bond girl Pam Bouvier and a young Benicio del Toro as a henchman, grossed $156.two million worldwide -- a big drop at the box office compared with Dalton's debut 007 pic.
Metascore: 58
17 (tie). Breakthrough of Solace
MGM
To date, this 2008 film is the worst-reviewed of the 007 Daniel Craig era. "Quantum of Solace may be explosive with images of fiery infernos," Film Threat'southward Jay Slater wrote, "just it'due south convoluted and disruptive."
On the whole, the Craig-led Bond films boast a Metascore boilerplate of 69.8, making his movies the second-best reviewed 007 movies of all time.
On one manus, Quantum of Solace, co-starring Mathieu Amalric as Bond villain Dominic Greene, is the fourth-biggest-grossing James Bond movie of all time, with $591.7 million in worldwide ticket sales. On the other hand, the motion-picture show is the lowest-grossing James Bond picture show starring Daniel Craig.
Metascore: 58
16. Diamonds Are Forever
MGM
The lowest-ranked Sean Connery motion picture in this rundown is the Scotsman'south 6th Bail projection -- and the last ane that the iconic star fabricated before taking a 12-twelvemonth 007 hiatus. According to critics, Diamonds Are Forever was evidence of a franchise in need of new blood.
The New Yorker's Pauline Kael chosen the moving-picture show an "unimaginative Bond flick that is often noisy when information technology means to be exciting."
Diamonds Are Forever co-stars Charles Grayness equally arch-villain Blofeld and Jill St. John as Bond girl Tiffany Example, and features Putter Smith and Bruce Glover as the archly menacing Mr. Kidd and Mr. Wint, respectively. Among the Sean Connery 007 installments, the movie grossed a middling $116 million worldwide.
Metascore: 59
fourteen (necktie). Spectre
MGM
This 2015 Daniel Craig gamble is "filled with large sets, big stunts, and what ought to be large moments," Matt Zoller Seitz noted for RogerEbert.com, "but few of them country."
Spectre co-stars Christoph Waltz in a new have on the former reliable Bond villain Blofeld, with Ralph Fiennes taking over as M, and similar Skyfall, delves deeper into Bail's origin story. It grossed a whopping $879.half-dozen million worldwide, the 2d-biggest take for the franchise.
Metascore: 60
fourteen (tie). The Living Daylights
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This 1987 Timothy Dalton entry, the start of his 2 turns as James Bond, wins points from critics for not existence a Roger Moore entry. "After the fizzle of the afterward Roger Moore Bonds," Empire's Kim Newman wrote, "The Living Daylights brings in a new 007 … who manages the Connery trick of seeming suave and tough at the same time."
The Living Daylights outgrossed its predecessor, Roger Moore'south A View to a Impale, by nearly $40 million, for a worldwide box office total of $191.ii meg.
Metascore: 60
12 (tie). On Her Majesty's Secret Service
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This 1969 film, which marks George Lazenby'southward alone outing as James Bond, is a pretty adept 007 entry, per critics. While the New Yorker's Pauline Kael found its star "quite a dull fellow," she called the picture "exciting."
On Her Majesty's Secret Service bankrupt new basis: It featured a James Bond wedding, with Diana Rigg as 007'due south feisty merely ill-fated bride, Tracy di Vincenzo. At the box role, though, the film fell flat with an $82 million worldwide gross.
Metascore: 61
12 (tie). You Only Live Twice
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This 1967 entry marks Sean Connery's fifth outing as James Bond. Chicago Lord's day-Times critic Roger Ebert saw signs of wear: "Connery labors mightily," Ebert wrote.
For a Sean Connery James Bond movie, Yous Only Live Twice grossed a so-so $111.6 million worldwide. The film is nonetheless influential: Its true cat-petting iteration of Blofeld (played by Donald Pleasence), complete with villain's hideaway in a volcano, inspired the Austin Powers franchise's Dr. Evil.
Metascore: 61
eleven. Octopussy
MGM
Co-ordinate to critics, this 1983 pic is Roger Moore'due south second-all-time James Bond movie. "It soars, all right, but information technology does information technology on automatic airplane pilot," wrote Jay Scott for Toronto'southward Globe and Post.
Octopussy, co-starring Maud Adams in her 2nd franchise outing (afterwards The Homo with the Golden Gun), as the titular character, grossed a solid $187.5 million worldwide.
Metascore: 63
x. Thunderball
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According to critics, this 1965 moving picture is a lesser Sean Connery 007 entry, but a worthy entry overall. Wrote Empire'south Kim Newman, the moving picture "effortlessly plies the celebrity Bond years, concluding with a stunning underwater battle."
Thunderball is the top-grossing Sean Connery 007 movie of the 1960s and 1970s: It took in $141.2 million in worldwide ticket sales. It also provided the template for Connery's final James Bond outing nearly two decades later, Never Say Never Again.
Metascore: 64
ix. GoldenEye
MGM
The first Pierce Brosnan Bond motion-picture show is the best Pierce Brosnan Bail movie, per critics. "New Bond man Brosnan tin't be faulted for much," Desson Thomson wrote in The Washington Mail. "In this new venture, he's accordingly handsome, British-accented and suave."
GoldenEye featured Sean Bean as a double-0 agent turned bad guy, Famke Janssen as Bond girl Xenia Onatopp and Judi Dench in her first turn as Bond dominate M. Information technology grossed a then-huge $356.4 million worldwide. Pent-up demand may have helped: The 1995 film was the first James Bond movie since Timothy Dalton's License to Kill, released six years prior.
Metascore: 65
viii. Moonraker
MGM
Released in 1979, two years after Star Wars changed simply about everything in Hollywood, the fourth Roger Moore James Bond moving-picture show sees 007 sent to outer space. Critics non-ironically cheered. "Moonraker is a satisfying alloy of familiar ingredients," wrote The Washington Post'southward Gary Arnold.
Moonraker, co-starring Lois Chiles as astronaut Holly Goodhead (yep, really), is the ninth-biggest-grossing James Bail movie of all time, with $210.3 1000000 in worldwide ticket sales.
Overall, Moonraker is the best-reviewed Bond movie of the Moore era.
Metascore: 66
half-dozen (necktie). Never Say Never Again
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The summit-grossing Sean Connery Bond movie, this 1983 film is also one of the ameliorate-reviewed Bond movies.
Never Say Never Again marked Connery's final 007 appearance and, from a critical standpoint, seems to have benefited from having been released during the reviled tail terminate of the Roger Moore era.
"It is good to come across Connery's grave stylishness in this role again," Time's Richard Schickel wrote. "It makes Bond'southward cynicism and opportunism seem the production of genuine worldliness (and earth weariness) as opposed to Roger Moore's mere twirpishness."
Despite the presence of Connery, who first embodied Bond on the large screen, this motion-picture show wasn't from Eon Productions, making it the 2nd of the two non-canonical films in our listing.
Metascore: 68
6 (tie). No Fourth dimension to Die
Universal
The terminal film to star Daniel Craig as 007 has drawn largely positive reviews, following an extended look for its release brought virtually by production delays and the coronavirus pandemic. With a running time of 2 hours, 43 minutes, No Fourth dimension to Die is the longest Bond movie of them all.
"No Time to Die packs a quintessentially Bond dial while also taking huge risks with the aging character and decades-old formula," Richard Trenholm said in CNET's No Fourth dimension to Die review. "Every Bond motion picture markets itself as a fresh twist, but No Fourth dimension to Die is genuinely bonkers at how far it goes."
Or put more simply: "James Bond finally gets a life."
Metascore: 68
5. Dr. No
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The get-go James Bond feature movie, released in 1962 (though it didn't arrive in the United states of america until 1963), is one of the best James Bail movies, per critics. "Sean Connery excellently puts over a cool, fearless, on-the-brawl, fictional Cloak-and-dagger Service guy," Diverseness praised.
Dr. No, featuring Ursula Andress every bit original Bond girl Dear Ryder (yep, actually), was one of 1963's Top 10 box-office hits. It grossed $59.vi million worldwide.
Metascore: 78
iv. Casino Royale
MGM
The outset Daniel Craig James Bail movie, Casino Royale blew abroad critics with its new take on the spy saga. "[Craig's] Bond is at least the equal of the best ones before him, and beats all of them in sheer intensity," The Wall Street Journal'due south Joe Morgenstern raved.
The opening minutes of the film reveal how Bond earned his double-0 rating, and for fans of the Ian Fleming novels, it manages to both stay truthful to the 1953 volume and adapt that story for audiences a half-century later.
The 2006 movie grossed a then-franchise-best $594.4 million worldwide.
Metascore: 80
iii. Skyfall
MGM
The top-grossing James Bond movie to date, with a worldwide take of more than $ane.ane billion, this 2012 film is, according to critics, the best Daniel Craig 007 movie -- and that's not all.
"Skyfall is ane of the best Bonds in the 50-year history of moviedom's about successful franchise," James Adams wrote in Toronto's World and Mail service.
The film won the serial' starting time two Oscars since 1964'due south Goldfinger; it claimed statuettes for sound editing and for Adele's title song.
Metascore: 81
2. From Russia With Dearest
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The 2d James Bond motion picture is, per the critical consensus, the 2nd-best James Bail flick e'er. The New Yorker's fabled Pauline Kael praised the 1963 release: "Heady, handsomely staged, and campy."
From Russia With Love, featuring Lotte Lenya equally Bond baddie Rosa Klebb and Robert Shaw as the SPECTRE assassin gunning for Bail, grossed $78.nine one thousand thousand worldwide, a take that represented significant growth over Dr. No, and firmly established 007 as a franchise to picket.
Metascore: 83
1. Goldfinger
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Here it is: This 1964 Sean Connery entry is, per the disquisitional consensus, the best James Bond movie. It had all the elements we've come to look: the megalomaniac villain with an outrageous and murderous scheme, the henchman with a quirky method for killing (Oddjob and his chapeau), big fix pieces with improvident activeness, Bond in a dinner jacket.
"Larger than life, faintly ridiculous, completely cool, Goldfinger is the quintessential James Bond movie," Empire'south Ian Freer wrote.
The film grossed a then-franchise-best $124.9 million worldwide, and won the franchise's first Oscar (for sound furnishings).
Metascore: 87
James Bond movies in chronological order
In the official Bail canon -- the films made by Eon Productions -- there are 25 films, including the upcoming No Time to Dice. Because of licensing issues, at that place were 2 other, non-approved movies: the 1967 version of Casino Royale, and Sean Connery's terminal outing, 1983'southward Never Say Never Over again.
Sean Connery
- Dr. No (1962)
- From Russia With Dear (1963)
- Goldfinger (1964)
- Thunderball (1965)
- Y'all Only Live Twice (1967)
David Niven, amidst others
- Casino Royale (1967)
George Lazenby
- On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969)
Sean Connery, showtime comeback
- Diamonds Are Forever (1971)
Roger Moore
- Live and Let Die (1973)
- The Man With the Aureate Gun (1974)
- The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
- Moonraker (1979)
- For Your Eyes Simply (1981)
Sean Connery, second comeback
- Never Say Never Again (1983)
Roger Moore, nevertheless on his run
- Octopussy (1983)
- A View to a Kill (1985)
Timothy Dalton
- The Living Daylights (1987)
- Licence to Kill (1989)
Pierce Brosnan
- GoldenEye (1995)
- Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
- The Globe Is Non Enough (1999)
- Die Another Twenty-four hour period (2002)
Daniel Craig
- Casino Royale (2006)
- Breakthrough of Solace (2008)
- Skyfall (2012)
- Spectre (2015)
- No Time to Die (2021)
Source: https://www.cnet.com/culture/entertainment/all-the-james-bond-movies-ranked-from-no-time-to-die-back-to-the-start/
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