Goldfinger Reviews

GOLDFINGER, for me, isn't the perfect Bond movie (though it does have all the elements to be perfect), but it's still a fun, corny time. Definition of a popcorn movie.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

Gone is any and all idea of James Bond's vulnerability. However, "Goldfinger" swaps in a gaudier, glitzier subtext directly related to how this blockbuster took aim almost squarely at an American audience.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

There's a very special, and weird, purity about the Bond formula as it is presented here: all the excess is in place but still reined in by some last measure of discipline.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10

Thrilling action comedy may be the best Bond.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

...remains a cut above its Bond brethren...

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4

In scene after scene Director Guy Hamilton has contrived some hilariously horrible sight gags.

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Perfection.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

A fantastically entertaining entry.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Goldfinger is a crucial work in the development of the Bond legend.

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There's not the least sign of staleness in this third sample of the Bond 007 formula.

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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.

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One of the best, if not the best Bond movie

| Original Score: 4/4

It has Shirley Bassey's operatic theme, the Aston Martin and Shirley Eaton, killed with that magnificently macabre gold paint.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5

One of the more amusing Bond films.

Full Review | Original Score: A-

Sean Connery excelle une fois de plus dans la peau d'un personnage aussi froid que charismatique qui continue de foncer tête première avec un détachement souvent irrationnel

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10

The iconic James Bond movie, this third entry into the franchise is rightly heralded for offering the perfect blend of action, adventure, gunplay, fisticuffs, gadgetry (that Aston Martin!), romance, derring-do, and just about everything else.

Full Review | Original Score: 5/5

Presented here in a newly restored digital print, it should look especially swish on the big screen.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/6

The one that all other Bond films must live up to, and the only one of the films that surpasses the book upon which it is based.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4

The most consistent and entertaining of the Bond series.

| Original Score: 5/5

Goldfinger remains the gold standard for the Bond movies. Recent entries can't compare to this lustrous thriller, a throwback to when the term "thriller" had meaning.