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: 1981
The 007: Roger Moore
The (non-UK) location(s): Moscow, Madrid, Corfu, Albania, Italy
The theme song: "For Your Eyes Only" performed by Sheena Easton
New director John Glen (helming the first of five consecutive Bond films) introduced a slightly darker and more realistic edge to the franchise with this 1981 entry—Moore's fifth—that opens by killing off (unofficially, due to contractual disputes) longtime Bond villain Blofeld and spends the bulk of its time following Bond across Europe as he tracks down a stolen military device—a far cry from attempting to thwart a genocidal maniac in space (as Bond did in the prior film, Moonraker). The title and story are taken from Fleming's 1960 short story compilation of the same name—a book that would also influence the titles of two later Bond films (A View to a Kill and Quantum of Solace), the plots and characters of even more, and whose stories were originally intended for a Bond television series that was never produced.
“For Your Eyes Only is one giant second-unit film, an anthology of action episodes held together by the thinnest of plot lines. Most of these episodes are terrific in their exhilaratingly absurd energy: Steven Spielberg himself would not sneer at them.” —Jack Kroll, Newsweek
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