Another Year Come and Gone and Daniel Craig's Casino Royale Is Still the Only Good Bond Movie

Over the last 54 years, we’ve had short Bonds and tall Bonds, British Bonds, Scottish Bonds, and even an Asian Bond, for one ill-advised scene at least. But the only Bond that matters (besides your word and I guess the kind issued by the Treasury) is a recent addition to the canon—Daniel Craig in Casino Royale. This movie is literally all about a card game, and it still rules.

“But, but Goldfinger,” you sputter! A fine movie, for idiots who believe you could really suffocate that way. From Russia With Love, you comment below this article, though I will never see it, for I studiously ignore bad opinions. Does Sean Connery slapping a woman spy in the face hold up? “I don’t think there is anything particularly wrong about hitting a woman,” he later explained to Playboy. “An openhanded slap is justified–if all other alternatives fail and there has been plenty of warning. If a woman is a bitch, or hysterical, or bloody-minded continually, then I’d do it. I think a man has to be slightly advanced, ahead of the woman.”