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: 2012
The 007: Daniel Craig
The (non-UK) location(s): Turkey, Shanghai, Macau
The theme song: "Skyfall" performed by Adele
Easily the highest-grossing film in the franchise (as the only Bond film to take in more than $1 billion worldwide), Skyfall is also Daniel Craig's best-reviewed outing as 007—an impressive comeback from his previous Bond film, which was his worst.
Director Sam Mendes (American Beauty) made his series debut with this lengthy film that finds Bond pitted against Javier Bardem's villain Raoul Silva, with the film taking its title from the name of Bond's childhood home where the pair's final showdown unfolds. A completely original story not tied to a particular Fleming work, Skyfall was filmed by the great Roger Deakins (with more than one critic singling out his visuals for praise) and written by the team of Neal Purvis and Robert Wade (who scripted every Daniel Craig Bond film), joined by John Logan (Hugo, The Aviator).
“Skyfall triumphantly reinvents 007 in one of the best Bonds ever. This is a full-blooded, joyous, intelligent celebration of a beloved cultural icon, with Daniel Craig taking full possession of a role he previously played unconvincingly. I don't know what I expected in Bond No. 23, but certainly not an experience this invigorating.” —Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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