Goldfinger 1964

Critics score:
96 / 100

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Bosley Crowther, New York Times: ... what they give us in Goldfinger is an excess of-science-fiction fun, a mess of mechanical melodrama and a minimum of bedroom farce. Read more

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader: This 1964 entry is the most enjoyable of the James Bond thrillers starring Sean Connery -- perhaps because it's the most comic and cartoony in look as well as conception. Read more

Wanda Hale, New York Daily News: It's phenomenal! Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Although more gimmicky than From Russia with Love, this film is equally as entertaining. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: If it is not a great film, it is a great entertainment, and contains all the elements of the Bond formula that would work again and again. Read more

TIME Magazine: A bit much? Yes, but it's meant to be. Like Doctor No and From Russia with Love, the two previous Bond bombshells, this picture is a thriller exuberantly travestied. Read more

Derek Adams, Time Out: Presented here in a newly restored digital print, it should look especially swish on the big screen. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: There's not the least sign of staleness in this third sample of the Bond 007 formula. Read more