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No Time to Die

100 Movies of 2021

No Time to Die

2021

Cary Joji Fukunaga

Daniel Craig, Léa Seydoux, Rami Malek, Lashana Lynch ...

6.2

18,760

Thriller. Action. Adventure In NO TIME TO DIE, Bond has left active service and is enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica. His peace is short-lived when his old friend Felix Leiter from the CIA turns up asking for help. The mission to rescue a kidnapped scientist turns out to be far more treacherous than expected, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology.

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Peter Bradshaw The Guardian	"Is a weird and self-aware epic with audacious surprises up its sleeve. (...) it is very enjoyable and gleefully spectacular. (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Owen Gleiberman Variety	"Daniel Craig’s Bond gets the send-off he deserves in the series’ best entry since 'Casino Royale'. Director Cary Joji Fukunaga fuses all the elements of a good 007 adventure, including that ineffable touch of soul"	POS
United Kingdom	Ian Sandwell Digital Spy	"Delivers all the spectacle you'd expect from a 007 movie, throws a few surprises in along the way and proves to be an entertaining, affecting and bold finale for Daniel Craig. (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	David Rooney The Hollywood Reporter	"Regardless of the plotting deficiencies and occasional pacing lags, there’s plenty here for diehard Bond fans to savor (...) It may not rank up there with Skyfall, but it’s a moving valedictory salute to [Craig]"	NEU
United Kingdom	Robbie Collin Telegraph	"It’s often very funny indeed. The mood is often closer to the perkier passages of the Connery films, and the humour feels contemporary and British: the Phoebe Waller-Bridge script polish evidently yielded the desired result. (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Nicholas Barber BBC	"'No Time To Die' does exactly what it was intended to do, which is to round off the Craig era with tremendous ambition and aplomb. It somehow succeeds in taking something from every single other Bond film, and sticking them all together (...) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Scott Mendelson Forbes	"No Time to Die is trying to be “just the next James Bond movie” for its first hour, it’s quite good. But when (...) tries to be an explicit sequel to 'Spectre', well, it’s hard to make a tasty souffle from flawed ingredients."	NEU
United Kingdom	John Nugent Empire	"Fukunaga, it seems, was an ideal choice of director, skilfully balancing the contradictions of the character and the franchise. (...) Raise a martini — it was worth the wait. (…) Rating: ★★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Phil de Semlyen Time Out	"[It offers] so many surprises, it’s tough to know where to start. There are big, unprecedented storytelling decisions (...) The nicest surprise of them all, though, is just how good it is (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Johnny Oleksinski New York Post	"Cary Joji Fukunaga was the right choice to direct 'No Time To Die' (...) His Bond feels reverential and classic, but not campy, and he makes bold choices (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"	POS
United Kingdom	Jonathan Romney Screendaily	"There's plenty to gawk at, and to argue over, in this episode - yet 'No Time To Die' is oddly lacking in pleasure or real wit."	NEU
United States	Jason Solomons The Wrap	"Craig takes James Bond to exciting, emotional places where the character has rarely, if ever, traveled. (...) 'No Time To Die' is Daniel Craig’s best incarnation of an iconic role (...) “No Time to Die” will be remembered for its emotional impact above all"	POS
United Kingdom	Kevin Maher The Times	"It's better than good. It's magnificent. (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	Robert Daniels The Playlist	"For those who’ve taken Craig’s Bond as their concerns: Their wait is worth it."	POS
United States	Bilge Ebiri Vulture	"The material has no substance: It’s still the same tired nonsense, just longer, and all the added elements to give the story and the characters emotional heft mostly fail as a result."	NEG
United States	Pete Hammond Deadline	"There is as much emphasis on the human beings here, their conflicts and complications and complexities as there is on the fast moving thrills."	POS
United States	Leah Greenblatt Entertainment Weekly	"As Bond swan songs go, it's a fond farewell: faithfully bridging the old world and the new until the last, deathless postscript"	POS
United States	Brian Lowry CNN	"'No Time to Die' feels as if it's working too hard to provide Craig a sendoff worthy of all the hype associated with it -- an excess that might be summed up as simply, finally, by taking too much time to reach the finish."	NEU
United States	David Ehrlich IndieWire	"James Bond has saved the world two dozen times during the last half-century, but the stakes have never been higher than they are here."	POS
United States	Don Kaye Den of Geek	"Daniel Craig gives his finest performance yet in the role (...) [It is] possibly the most layered and multi-dimensional edition of the character in the franchise’s entire 59-year run (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)"	POS
United States	A.A. Dowd AV Club	"A sentimental, unsatisfying end to the Daniel Craig era of James Bond (...) The problem is that this final installment builds its stakes around a relationship it’s barely dramatized"	NEG
Ireland	Donald Clarke Irish Times	"A satisfactory valediction to the longest reign so far in the Bond dynasty. (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Canada	Mae Abdulbaki Screen Rant	"The film truly soars when its focus is on Bond’s personal story (...) The action, the personal subplots, and the generally good pacing will keep audiences in their seats (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
United Kingdom	Tom Beasley Metro	"When 'No Time to Die' shoots for depth, intimacy and something beyond the next vodka martini, it flounders and disappears into the ether its own bloated indulgence (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"	NEU
United Kingdom	Alex Flood NME	"Craig and Seydoux’s relationship feels totally believable, their chemistry more intense than any Bond romance we’ve seen before (...) [The producers] should be applauded for taking some bold risks (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"	POS
Canada	Chris Bumbray JoBlo	"[Fukunaga] re-introduces some fun into the series, with some solid quips and a sense of fun we haven’t gotten since 'Casino Royale'."	POS
United States	Peter Travers ABC News	"It's no secret why Craig's the gold-standard Bond of the 21st century. Nobody does it better"	POS
Canada	Mel Valentin Screen Anarchy	"As a globe-trotting send-off for Daniel Craig, 'No Time To Die' certainly manages to conclude Bond’s personal arc with a stirring, moving emotional payoff"	POS

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