This is the template borrowed and measured against for the entire franchise for a reason several decades and incarnations later.

| Dec 27, 2024

Endlessly entertaining and effortlessly performed, it's packed with classic moments.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Aug 8, 2024

Bond is grittier in this action role while still holding on to his sleek and handsome charm. But more importantly, the Bond girls change, definitely for the better.

| Apr 23, 2024

... forged the formula of tongue-in-cheek wit, wondrous secret agent toys created by Q, and megalomaniac supervillains bent on world destruction. It was an instant smash hit and turned the series into a cultural phenomenon.

| Dec 3, 2022

Guy Hamilton found the perfect balance of serious and camp that made this film not only feel unique, but like a perfection of what the previous two films were going for tone-wise.

| Original Score: A- | Aug 28, 2022

Connery is superb, the action is well done, and the story is good crazy fun.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 21, 2022

Almost everything about this movie is unforgettable. The incredible title sequence, the menacing co-protagonist villain and Connery's "perfect" masculinity. Bond has evolved, but it gives pleasure to watch were it started. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 8/10 | Jun 22, 2022

It's the easy choice. The obvious choice. The safe choice. It's also the best choice, a no-brainer.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 25, 2021

Goldfinger was the third film in the James Bond franchise but the film, starring Sean Connery, is the gold standard for all Bond films.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Nov 1, 2020

Bond is ordered to remain cold and objective but disobeys handsomely, seducing and bedding almost every woman in the film.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Aug 24, 2020

I know we all have our favourites but the Bond franchise wouldn't be what it is today without Goldfinger.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jul 16, 2020

It's not quite the perfect film many claim it to be, but it is a perfect representation of what Bond is, and you would be hard-pressed to identify a film in the series that is filled with more iconic moments than this one.

| May 16, 2020

The stoic, tongue-in-cheek style in this third 007 flick was culturally defining.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 4, 2020

The third, and by far the best, of the Bond jobs.

| Jan 24, 2020

Parts of the film are so classically dramatic they could function as silent pieces - like when Bond infiltrates Goldfinger's plant in Switzerland and the Fort Knox raid.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Oct 31, 2019

Goldfinger is a classic, no doubt. It does have some flaws in the third quarter of the film, but it pulls it back to become a fun, relaxing watch.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 27, 2019

The ultimate measure of Goldfinger's sustained success is in how much it's become part of our shared filmic culture irrespective of whether folks have even seen the movie.

| Nov 2, 2018

Goldfinger allows nothing to impede its sense of humour: it converts Bond into a human equivalent of the cat in the Tom and Jerry cartoons, with the same ghastly resilience and the same capacity for absorbing punishment.

| Jul 6, 2018

This is the third, tightest and wildest script Sean Connery, as the invincible agent, has yet had on the screen.

| Dec 30, 2017

It's phenomenal!

| Original Score: 4/4 | Dec 21, 2015