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Across a total of 27 movies and six decades, the Bail franchise has provided us with endless thrills and more than than a few groans. Your personal favorite may depend a lot on when yous started watching, and who was starring at the time -- the '90s with Pierce Brosnan? The '70s withRoger Moore? Well-nigh people haven't been watching since 1962 when the 007 series got going, just those early Sean Connery outings accept largely held potent in the court of public stance. Whatever: Information technology'south always fun to await back, seeing how Eon Productions made the superspy an emblem of the times, an avatar of style and aman of many gadgets.

Speaking of looking back: At the 2022 University Awards ceremony in March, the Oscars paid homage to the 60 years of Bond movies with a fun montage: the tuxes! the cars! the gun-butt signature moves! Meanwhile, Billie Eilish and Finneas won the Oscar for best original song for the theme song to No Time to Dice, Daniel Craig's final outing.

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If you don't know where to kickoff with the Bond films, be sure to check out our recommendations and full rundown on big-screen Bond. Or y'all can bank check out these James Bond moving picture rankings below, from worst to all-time. Information technology's based on an aggregate of moving-picture show reviews, specific to when the movies came out, as compiled by CNET sister site Metacritic. The list accounts for every theatrical 007 release, not just the 25 from Eon Productions but also two non-canonical entries: the 1967 version of Casino Royale, a trippy turn with multiple actors playing Bail (David Niven chief amidst them), and 1983's Never Say Never Again, featuring Connery in his 2nd comeback.

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Information technology doesn't, however, include the 1954 version of Casino Royale, a 50-minute Goggle box playhouse product that introduced Ian Fleming's hero to the world as "Jimmy" Bond, an American secret agent. You can find that on YouTube, if you're curious.

Otherwise, nosotros've got the whole roster of actors who've played Bond in the official franchise -- Connery and Craig, Moore and Brosnan, and curt-timers Timothy Dalton andGeorge Lazenby.

James Bond movies ranked, from worst to best

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27. A View to a Kill

Co-ordinate to the critical consensus, Roger Moore isn't simply the star of the worst James Bond movie -- this snowboarding 1985 entry -- he's the star of the worst James Bond movies, period. When combined and averaged, his 007 films produce a franchise-depression Metascore of 53.seven.

A View to a Kill was Moore's seventh and terminal 007 movie. His co-stars included Christopher Walken equally gleefully murderous villain Max Zorin and Grace Jones as Bail baddie (and eventual ally) May Day. The plot that Bond has to foil: Zorin's scheme to destroy Silicon Valley and then he can control the market place for figurer chips.

"The James Bond series has had its bummers, but nothing before in the class of this ane," Pauline Kael wrote for The New Yorker.

Metascore: 40

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26. The Man With the Golden Gun

As far every bit critics are concerned, this 1974 installment, Moore's second outing equally 007, is another bottom-dweller in the James Bail franchise. "If y'all enjoyed the early on Bond films every bit much every bit I did, you'd better skip this one," Nora Sayre wrote in The New York Times.

The Man With the Gilt Gun, featuring Christopher Lee as the Bond villain and rival marksman Scaramanga and eventual Fantasy Isle star Herve Villechaize as his henchman Nick Nack, grossed $97.6 million worldwide, the weakest box-office performance by any of the Roger Moore 007 films.

Metascore: 43

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25. Casino Royale (1967)

This offbeat, comic entry features a multitude of actors as James Bond. Only more than 007s practise not make things merrier -- or improve. Diverseness chosen this version of Casino Royale "a film of astounding sloppiness" and "an insult to the Bond name."

This is i of the ii noncanonical, non-Eon films in our rundown. (And for Bond completists -- sorry, we're non including the 1954 television production of Casino Royale, which portrayed our hero as Jimmy Bail, and an American to boot.)

1967'south Casino Royale, featuring David Niven, Peter Sellers and Orson Welles, grossed a Bond-worst $41.vii million worldwide.

Metascore: 48

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24. Tomorrow Never Dies

The first of the four Pierce Brosnan Bond movies in this list gets credit for giving Michelle Yeoh an early on Hollywood showcase -- only for little else. According to Salon'due south Charles Taylor, this 1997 movie "scores nothing in suspense, wit or course."

When averaged, Brosnan's four James Bond movies post a 57.5 Metascore, the second-lowest among 007 actors who have starred in at least iv movies.

At the box office, Tomorrow Never Dies, featuring Jonathan Pryce every bit villain Elliot Carver, grossed $339.v meg worldwide. That's on par with, but on the low terminate of, the other films of the Brosnan era.

Metascore: 52

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23. For Your Eyes Only

Critics are kinder, if still absurd, to Roger Moore's fifth 007 take a chance. In the Chicago Sun-Times, critic Roger Ebert wrote that the 1981 film "is a competent James Bond thriller. … But it's no more that."

Aside from its reviews, For Your Eyes Merely is a success of the Roger Moore era: Information technology earned an Oscar nomination for its Sheena Easton-crooned title vocal, and it grossed $195.3 million worldwide -- the second-all-time box function showing for a Moore installment.

Metascore: 54

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21 (tie). The Spy Who Loved Me

Nominated for a franchise-all-time three Oscars, this 1977 Roger Moore risk nevertheless rated mixed reviews from critics. "After the opening sequence," Newsweek'due south Maureen Orth wrote, "much of the activeness in The Spy Who Loved Me … is somewhat downhill."

The Spy Who Loved Me, featuring the kickoff of ii franchise appearances by Richard Kiel as the villainous Jaws, grossed $185.4 1000000 worldwide, making it one of the biggest box office hits of its release year.

Metascore: 55

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21 (tie). Live and Allow Die

Roger Moore's start James Bail motion picture is, well, another middling endeavour -- at least per the critics. In retrospect, this 1973 film may have suffered by comparison with the simply-ended Sean Connery era.

"Even the art management -- long the Bond films' existent underground weapon -- seems to have fallen to a shrunken budget," the Chicago Reader'south Dave Kehr wrote. "Non much fun."

At the box part, Live and Permit Die, co-starring Geoffrey Holder as the voodoo-practicing henchman Baron Samedi and Yaphet Kotto as head bad guy Katanga/Mr. Big, and featuring the hit title song by Paul McCartney's Wings, was a large step upwardly from the Sean Connery film that preceded it, Diamonds Are Forever. Live and Allow Die grossed $161.8 million worldwide.

Metascore: 55

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twenty. Die Another Twenty-four hours

The final Pierce Brosnan James Bail movie may take introduced the invisible machine, simply critics call up of this 2002 film as a retread, non an innovator. "Surely it volition non be giving things away to tell yous there's admittedly nothing new about the latest episode," Desson Thomson wrote in The Washington Post.

Co-starring then-reigning Oscar winner Halle Berry as Bond girl Jinx Johnson, with Monty Python'south John Cleese as Q, and featuring the hit championship rail by Madonna, Die Another Day grossed more money than any other Pierce Brosnan 007 film: $431.9 million worldwide.

Metascore: 56

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nineteen. The World Is Not Plenty

This 1998 flick is the third Pierce Brosnan James Bond film. "This keeps one reasonably amused, titillated, and brain-dead for a picayune over two hours," Jonathan Rosenbaum wrote in the Chicago Reader.

The World Is Not Enough grossed a solid $361.vii million at the worldwide box office. It co-stars Robert Carlyle every bit the villain Renard, who feels no pain; Sophie Marceau as the strikingly conflicted Elektra King; and Denise Richards as a nuclear physicist.

Metascore: 57

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17 (tie). Licence to Impale

The second -- and final -- James Bond movie of the Timothy Dalton era gets good marks as an activeness moving picture, but not necessarily every bit a 007 movie. "James Bond might as well be any of a dozen motion-picture show cops," the St. Louis Mail-Dispatch's Joe Pollack wrote of this 1989 entry.

Licence to Kill, featuring Robert Davi as the drug lord villain Sanchez, Carey Lowell as Bond girl Pam Bouvier and a young Benicio del Toro equally a henchman, grossed $156.two meg worldwide -- a big driblet at the box role compared with Dalton's debut 007 film.

Metascore: 58

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17 (tie). Breakthrough of Solace

This 2008 film is the worst-reviewed of the 007 Daniel Craig era. "Quantum of Solace may be explosive with images of fiery infernos," Film Threat'south Jay Slater wrote, "just it'due south convoluted and confusing."

On the whole, the Craig-led Bail films boast a Metascore average of 69.4, making his movies the 2nd-best reviewed 007 movies of all time.

On ane manus, Quantum of Solace, co-starring Mathieu Amalric as Bond villain Dominic Greene, is the quaternary-biggest-grossing James Bond motion picture of all fourth dimension, with $591.7 million in worldwide ticket sales. On the other hand, the film is the everyman-grossing James Bond film starring Daniel Craig.

Metascore: 58

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sixteen. Diamonds Are Forever

The lowest-ranked Sean Connery motion-picture show in this rundown is the Scotsman'southward 6th Bond projection -- and the concluding one that the iconic star made before taking a 12-twelvemonth 007 hiatus. According to critics, Diamonds Are Forever was evidence of a franchise in need of new blood.

The New Yorker'due south Pauline Kael chosen the film an "unimaginative Bond picture that is often noisy when information technology means to exist heady."

Diamonds Are Forever co-stars Charles Gray as curvation-villain Blofeld and Jill St. John equally Bail girl Tiffany Instance, and features Doodle Smith and Bruce Glover as the archly menacing Mr. Kidd and Mr. Wint, respectively. Among the Sean Connery 007 installments, the movie grossed a middling $116 1000000 worldwide.

Metascore: 59

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14 (tie). Spectre

This 2015 Daniel Craig adventure is "filled with big sets, large stunts, and what ought to be big moments," Matt Zoller Seitz noted for RogerEbert.com, "simply few of them land."

Spectre co-stars Christoph Waltz in a new take on the erstwhile reliable Bond villain Blofeld, with Ralph Fiennes taking over equally Thou, and like Skyfall, delves deeper into Bail's origin story. It grossed a whopping $879.6 million worldwide, the second-biggest take for the franchise.

Metascore: lx

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14 (tie). The Living Daylights

This 1987 Timothy Dalton entry, the first of his two turns as James Bond, wins points from critics for not beingness a Roger Moore entry. "Afterwards the fizzle of the later Roger Moore Bonds," Empire's Kim Newman wrote, "The Living Daylights brings in a new 007 … who manages the Connery trick of seeming suave and tough at the same time."

The Living Daylights outgrossed its predecessor, Roger Moore's A View to a Kill, past nearly $40 million, for a worldwide box office total of $191.2 one thousand thousand.

Metascore: sixty

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12 (necktie). On Her Majesty's Underground Service

This 1969 film, which marks George Lazenby'south lone outing every bit James Bail, is a pretty proficient 007 entry, per critics. While the New Yorker's Pauline Kael found its star "quite a deadening fellow," she called the movie "heady."

On Her Majesty's Clandestine Service broke new ground: Information technology featured a James Bond wedding, with Diana Rigg as 007's feisty but ill-fated bride, Tracy di Vincenzo. At the box function, though, the film cruel flat with an $82 million worldwide gross.

Metascore: 61

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12 (necktie). You Just Alive Twice

This 1967 entry marks Sean Connery's fifth outing every bit James Bond. Chicago Sun-Times critic Roger Ebert saw signs of article of clothing: "Connery labors mightily," Ebert wrote.

For a Sean Connery James Bond movie, You Just Alive Twice grossed a and then-so $111.6 million worldwide. The film is nonetheless influential: Its cat-petting iteration of Blofeld (played by Donald Pleasence), complete with villain'due south hideaway in a volcano, inspired the Austin Powers franchise'south Dr. Evil.

Metascore: 61

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eleven. Octopussy

According to critics, this 1983 film is Roger Moore's second-best James Bail movie. "It soars, all right, but it does it on automatic pilot," wrote Jay Scott for Toronto'due south Earth and Mail service.

Octopussy, co-starring Maud Adams in her second franchise outing (afterward The Human being with the Golden Gun), every bit the titular grapheme, grossed a solid $187.5 million worldwide.

Metascore: 63

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10. Thunderball

According to critics, this 1965 moving picture is a lesser Sean Connery 007 entry, merely a worthy entry overall. Wrote Empire's Kim Newman, the movie "effortlessly plies the celebrity Bond years, concluding with a stunning underwater battle."

Thunderball is the top-grossing Sean Connery 007 moving-picture show of the 1960s and 1970s: It took in $141.two million in worldwide ticket sales. It also provided the template for Connery'south final James Bond outing nearly two decades later, Never Say Never Again.

Metascore: 64

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9. GoldenEye

The first Pierce Brosnan Bond picture is the best Pierce Brosnan Bond motion-picture show, per critics. "New Bond man Brosnan tin't exist faulted for much," Desson Thomson wrote in The Washington Post. "In this new venture, he'southward appropriately handsome, British-accented and suave."

GoldenEye featured Sean Bean as a double-0 agent turned bad guy, Famke Janssen as Bond girl Xenia Onatopp and Judi Dench in her first turn as Bail dominate One thousand. Information technology grossed a and then-huge $356.four million worldwide. Pent-upward need may have helped: The 1995 film was the beginning James Bond movie since Timothy Dalton's License to Kill, released six years prior.

Metascore: 65

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8. Moonraker

Released in 1979, ii years subsequently Star Wars changed just about everything in Hollywood, the fourth Roger Moore James Bond film sees 007 sent to outer space. Critics not-ironically cheered. "Moonraker is a satisfying blend of familiar ingredients,"  wrote The Washington Mail'due south Gary Arnold.

Moonraker, co-starring Lois Chiles equally astronaut Holly Goodhead (aye, actually), is the ninth-biggest-grossing James Bail movie of all fourth dimension, with $210.3 million in worldwide ticket sales.

Overall, Moonraker is the best-reviewed Bond picture show of the Moore era.

Metascore: 66

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vi (tie). Never Say Never Again

The tiptop-grossing Sean Connery Bail motion picture, this 1983 picture is also one of the better-reviewed Bond movies.

Never Say Never Again marked Connery's last 007 advent and, from a critical standpoint, seems to have benefited from having been released during the reviled tail end of the Roger Moore era.

"It is good to run across Connery'south grave stylishness in this office over again," Fourth dimension's Richard Schickel wrote. "It makes Bond'due south cynicism and opportunism seem the product of genuine worldliness (and earth weariness) equally opposed to Roger Moore's mere twirpishness."

Despite the presence of Connery, who start embodied Bond on the big screen, this film wasn't from Eon Productions, making it the second of the two non-canonical films in our list.

Metascore: 68

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6 (tie). No Fourth dimension to Die

The final moving picture to star Daniel Craig as 007 has drawn largely positive reviews, following an extended expect for its release brought most by production delays and the coronavirus pandemic. With a running time of 2 hours, 43 minutes, No Time to Die is the longest Bail moving-picture show of them all.

"No Fourth dimension to Die packs a quintessentially Bond dial while besides taking huge risks with the aging character and decades-old formula," Richard Trenholm said in CNET'southward No Time to Die review. "Every Bond film markets itself as a fresh twist, but No Time to Dice is genuinely bonkers at how far it goes."

 Or put more than simply: "James Bond finally gets a life."

Metascore: 68

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5. Dr. No

The first James Bond characteristic moving-picture show, released in 1962 (though information technology didn't get in in the United States until 1963), is ane of the best James Bond movies, per critics. "Sean Connery excellently puts over a cool, fearless, on-the-ball, fictional Hush-hush Service guy," Diversity praised.

Dr. No, featuring Ursula Andress as original Bail daughter Honey Ryder (yes, really), was one of 1963's Top 10 box office hits. It grossed $59.vi meg worldwide.

Metascore: 78

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four. Casino Royale

The commencement Daniel Craig James Bond motion picture, Casino Royale blew away critics with its new take on the spy saga. "[Craig's] Bond is at least the equal of the best ones before him, and beats all of them in sheer intensity," The Wall Street Journal'due south Joe Morgenstern raved.

The opening minutes of the film reveal how Bond earned his double-0 rating, and for fans of the Ian Fleming novels, information technology manages to both stay truthful to the 1953 book and conform that story for audiences a half-century afterwards.

The 2006 picture show grossed a then-franchise-best $594.iv million worldwide.

Metascore: 80

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three. Skyfall

The elevation-grossing James Bond movie to engagement, with a worldwide take of more $i.1 billion, this 2012 moving picture is, according to critics, the best Daniel Craig 007 moving-picture show -- and that'south non all.

"Skyfall is one of the best Bonds in the l-yr history of moviedom's nearly successful franchise," James Adams wrote in Toronto's World and Mail service.

The film won the serial' first two Oscars since 1964's Goldfinger; it claimed statuettes for sound editing and for Adele's title song.

Metascore: 81

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2. From Russia With Love

The second James Bond flick is, per the critical consensus, the second-best James Bond movie ever. The New Yorker'south fabled Pauline Kael praised the 1963 release: "Heady, handsomely staged, and campy."

From Russia With Love, featuring Lotte Lenya as Bond baddie Rosa Klebb and Robert Shaw as the SPECTRE assassin gunning for Bond, grossed $78.9 one thousand thousand worldwide, a take that represented meaning growth over Dr. No, and firmly established 007 as a franchise to watch.

Metascore: 83

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1. Goldfinger

Here it is: This 1964 Sean Connery entry is, per the disquisitional consensus, the best James Bond picture. Information technology had all the elements nosotros've come up to expect: the megalomaniac villain with an outrageous and murderous scheme, the henchman with a quirky method for killing (Oddjob and his hat), big set pieces with improvident action, Bail in a dinner jacket.

"Larger than life, faintly ridiculous, completely cool, Goldfinger is the quintessential James Bond movie," Empire's Ian Freer wrote.

The flick grossed a and so-franchise-best $124.9 million worldwide, and won the franchise's showtime Oscar (for sound furnishings).

When Connery's seven 007 movies are taken together, the boilerplate Metascore comes in at 71.4, making his run the undisputed leader amidst Bond movies.

Metascore: 87

James Bond movies in chronological order

In the official Bond catechism -- the films made by Eon Productions -- there are 25 films, including No Time to Die. Because of licensing issues, there were two other, non-approved movies: the 1967 version of Casino Royale, and Sean Connery'due south last outing, 1983's Never Say Never Again.

Sean Connery

• Dr. No (1962)
• From Russia With Love (1963)
• Goldfinger (1964)
• Thunderball (1965)
• Yous Just Live Twice (1967)

David Niven, amidst others

• Casino Royale (1967)
  

George Lazenby

• On Her Majesty's Surreptitious Service (1969)

Sean Connery, first improvement

• Diamonds Are Forever (1971)

Roger Moore

• Alive and Allow Die (1973)
• The Man With the Gold Gun (1974)
• The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
• Moonraker (1979)
• For Your Eyes Only (1981)

Sean Connery, second comeback

• Never Say Never Again (1983)
  

Roger Moore, still on his run

• Octopussy (1983)
• A View to a Kill (1985)

Timothy Dalton

• The Living Daylights (1987)
• Licence to Impale (1989)

Pierce Brosnan

• GoldenEye (1995)
• Tomorrow Never Dies (1997)
• The World Is Not Enough (1999)
• Die Another Twenty-four hour period (2002)

Daniel Craig

• Casino Royale (2006)
• Quantum of Solace (2008)
• Skyfall (2012)
• Spectre (2015)
• No Time to Die (2021)

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