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: 2002
The 007: Pierce Brosnan
The (non-UK) location(s): North Korea, Cuba, Hong Kong, Iceland
The theme song: "Die Another Day" performed by Madonna
Halle Berry (fresh off her Oscar win for Monster's Ball) co-stars as an American NSA agent who works with 007 in Brosnan's final turn as James Bond. Designed as a sort of celebration of the franchise in honor of its 40th anniversary and 20th film installment, the Lee Tamahori-directed Die Another Day makes visual references to classic scenes from many of the prior films and also borrows story elements and characters from multiple Ian Fleming stories—especially the novel Moonraker, which features a similar plot. (The actual Moonraker film uses little from that book, so this film isn't a major rehash.)
While Berry's Jinx proved popular—so much so that at one point MGM considered giving her a spinoff movie—the film as a whole failed to impress reviewers (thanks to lackluster special effects and a weak third act) and is generally considered one of the lesser films in the series.
“Another Bond film that turns out to be an unspectacular spectacle, at times winking and fun but too often plodding and hackneyed. That said, as usual Brosnan is terrific, walking through dunderhead moments and a tedious plot with grace.” —Kim Morgan, The Oregonian
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