The film has breathless stunts and encounters aplenty.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jan 17, 2019

Bond is back. Bond is beefy. And the new Bond is blond. Daniel Craig has comfort ably slipped into the tuxedo, size 007, and left audiences shaken and stirred.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Dec 14, 2017

I think this is a very intelligent film for a Bond film, and certainly one of the most enjoyable.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 2, 2015

Unlike recent Bonds, whose kills had no more weight than the one-liners that generally accompanied them, Craig's tend to be intimate, bloody, and devoid of glamour.

| Nov 2, 2015

A film that strips most of the glamour and escapism from Bond, but remains the truest and toughest instalment yet.

Full Review | Nov 2, 2015

Daniel Craig, an excellent actor, has more than earned his Walther PPK.

| Nov 2, 2015

Casino Royale takes us back to basics. To a leaner production and to a Bond who looks like he can do serious damage

| Nov 2, 2015

Basically, Craig's Bond is a new and individual creation.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 2, 2015

Craig brings beef, biff and a slightly lonely dimension to the character. He's a fine actor and he has some of the working-class bile of the young Michael Caine. A new James Bond has certainly arrived.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 2, 2015

Let's say straight off that Craig is very good indeed: everything about his performance shows cunning and grace.

| Jun 18, 2012

Bond as a human being? Who'd'a'thunk?

| Oct 18, 2008

Casino Royale has the answers to all my complaints about the 45-year-old James Bond series, and some I hadn't even thought of.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Aug 17, 2007

I hope Craig finds more moments like that in Bond. And I hope he gets to wear that tuxedo again and again and again.

| Jun 29, 2007

I consider Daniel Craig to be the most effective and appealing of the six actors who have played 007, and that includes even Sean Connery.

| Apr 25, 2007

Craig is also the best Bond in the franchise's history.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 3, 2007

The first Bond film to actually prize three-dimensional characters and moral dilemmas over action-film flash.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 5, 2006

Daniel Craig is a fair-haired, bare-knuckle antidote to Pierce Brosnan. On the action-adventure level, it hits the bulls-eye.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Nov 22, 2006

This, at last, is Bond stripped bare.

| Nov 18, 2006

There's clearly life in the old dog yet.

| Nov 17, 2006

Craig is a marvel, but the decision to have Bond engaged in a game of Hold 'Em poker is a betrayal of the character and an embarrassing bit of pandering. Small detail, I know.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Nov 17, 2006