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: 1979
The 007: Roger Moore
The (non-UK) location(s): Los Angeles, Florida, France, Venice, Brazil, and in orbit around Earth
The theme song: "Moonraker" performed by Shirley Bassey (her 3rd Bond theme, a record)
It was probably inevitable that cinema's most famous globe-trotting series would finally go the extra 200 miles and leave the globe entirely. And even though it recycles a villain (Richard Kiel's Jaws) from the previous Bond film, boasts an absurd plot that finds an evil mastermind scheming to wipe out the human race save for a handful of perfect specimens that he is spiriting away in a secret space station, and features special effects that, viewed today, are best described as "amusing," Moonraker stands today as Moore's best-reviewed outing as 007 and was the highest-grossing film in the series until 1995.
Yes, there is a Fleming novel called Moonraker, but it certainly doesn't doesn't feature any trips aboard a space shuttle (though it does include the same villain, Hugo Drax).
“Moonraker is a satisfying blend of familiar ingredients, from the highly polished to the barely adequate.” —Gary Arnold, The Washington Post
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