Every James Bond Movie, Ranked Worst to Best
With this month's arrival (finally!) of No Time to Die, there have now been 25 official films in the EON-produced James Bond film franchise based on author Ian Fleming's British spy character. In the gallery on this page, we rank every one of those films—plus two additional Bond features from outside producers—from worst to best based on their Metascores, which represent the consensus of a group of top professional film critics.
Right now, it's fairly easy to find most of the Bond films on streaming services (and if it's not on the streaming service you have, it likely will be shortly, as the films are deleted from and re-added to various services every few months). That could change in the future thanks to a recent deal by Amazon to acquire MGM, which currently holds the home video rights to most of the Bond catalog, though there are no definitive plans to make Prime Video the exclusive home of 007 ... yet.
All photos courtesy Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios except Casino Royale (1967) by Columbia Pictures and Never Say Never Again by Warner Bros.
The year: 1965
The 007: Sean Connery
The (non-UK) location(s): Bahamas, Paris, Florida coast
The theme song: "Thunderball" performed by Tom Jones
Adapted from Fleming's ninth Bond novel (which would later be filmed again as Never Say Never Again), the fourth 007 film returned director Terence Young after sitting out the previous installment, but it couldn't match the greatness of its predecessor, the Guy Hamilton-directed Goldfinger. Still, an extended underwater sequence (part of Bond's attempt to recover a pair of nuclear warheads stolen by SPECTRE) that took up a quarter of the film's running time impressed reviewers.
“Connery [is] cruising by this point and the movie doesn't quite match the swagger of Goldfinger, but still effortlessly plies the glory Bond years, concluding with a stunning underwater battle.” —Kim Newman, Empire
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