The Best Bond Movies, Books, Villains, and Songs
A ranking of everything 007.
007s From Best to Worst
1. Sean Connery
2. Daniel Craig
3. Roger Moore
4. George Lazenby
5. Timothy Dalton
6. Pierce Brosnan
Bond Movies From Best to Worst
1. Goldfinger
2. The Spy Who Loved Me
3. From Russia With Love
4. Casino Royale
5. Octopussy
6. For Your Eyes Only
7. Dr. No
8. Thunderball
9. You Only Live Twice
10. Moonraker
11. Skyfall*
12. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
13. A View to a Kill
14. The Man With the Golden Gun
15. License to Kill
16. Diamonds Are Forever
17. The Living Daylights
18. Live and Let Die
19. Tomorrow Never Dies
20. Goldeneye
21. The World Is Not Enough
22. Die Another Day
23. Quantum of Solace
*Subject to change upon rewatching
Bond Books From Best to Worst
1. You Only Live Twice
2. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service
3. Dr. No
4. Casino Royale
5. For Your Eyes Only (short stories)
6. From Russia With Love
7. Goldfinger
8. Octopussy & The Living Daylights (short stories)
9. Moonraker
10. Live and Let Die
11. The Spy Who Loved Me
12. Thunderball
13. Diamonds Are Forever
14. The Man With The Golden Gun
Bond Villains From Best to Worst
1. Goldfinger (Gert Frobe, Goldfinger)
2. Stromberg (Curt Jurgens, The Spy Who Loved Me)
3. Kamal Khan (Louis Jourdan, Octopussy)
4. Drax (Michael Lonsdale, Moonraker)
5. Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen, Casino Royale)
6. Largo (Adolfo Celi, Thunderball)
7. Dr. No (Joseph Wiseman, Dr. No)
8. Blofeld (Eric Pohlmann as the voice and Anthony Dawson as the body, From Russia with Love—even without a face, a great villain)
9. Blofeld (Donald Pleasance, You Only Live Twice)
10. Raoul Silva (Javier Bardem, Skyfall)
11. Sanchez (Robert Davi, License to Kill)
12. Scaramanga (Christopher Lee, The Man With the Golden Gun)
13. Julian Glover (Kristatos, For Your Eyes Only)
14. Blofeld (Charles Gray, Diamonds are Forever)
15. Blofeld (Telly Savalas, On Her Majesty’s Secret Service)
16. Kananga (Yaphet Kotto, Live and Let Die)
17. Zorin (Christopher Walken, A View to a Kill)
18. Gustav Graves (Toby Stephens, Die Another Day)
19. Carver (Jonathan Pryce, Tomorrow Never Dies)
20. Renard (Robert Carlyle, The World is Not Enough)
21. Alec Trevelyav (Sean Bean, Goldeneye)
22. Mr. Green (Mathieu Almaric, Quantum of Solace)
23. Brad Whitaker (Joe Don Baker, The Living Daylights)
Top Five Theme Songs
1. “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”
2. “You Only Live Twice”
3. “The Living Daylights”
4. “All Time High” (from Octopussy)
5. “Moonraker”
Also in Slate, Isaac Chotiner examines what makes James Bond great.