No Time to Die
Universal Pictures | Release Date: October 8, 2021 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
68
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 67 Critic Reviews
Positive:
43
Mixed:
22
Negative:
2
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60
The New YorkerAnthony LaneOct 11, 2021
No Time to Die has a heavy heart, and right now, more than ever, we could use a light one. Read full review
60
ABC NewsPeter TraversOct 8, 2021
Despite a sappy ending that surprises in all the wrong ways, Daniel Craig’s fifth and final go-round as 007 cements his reputation as the gold-standard James Bond of the 21st century and lays down a challenge for anyone—he or she—who dares to follow him. Read full review
60
Christian Science MonitorPeter RainerOct 8, 2021
It offers up the requisite thrills, stunts, and bad guys. Beautiful people abound, and 007 still knows how to fill out a tux. I had a reasonably good time at it. Read full review
60
ScreenCrushMatt SingerOct 4, 2021
Parts recall the muscular intensity of Craig’s debut, Casino Royale. Others evoke painful memories (and specific story threads) from the bloated, digressive Spectre. Read full review
60
Rolling StoneK. Austin CollinsOct 4, 2021
Complicated, overly talkative, a little too slow and not-infrequently rote, the movie is just the ride we’ve hitched to the Departures gate. It’s Craig we’ve come here to see — and see off. And off he goes. Read full review
60
The Observer (UK)Wendy IdeOct 4, 2021
This is where the film slips up. With a Bond as dangerous but dour as Craig’s, the onus is on the villain to inject a little levity, hence the ham-tastic turns from Javier Bardem and Cristoph Waltz in the most recent outings. This film’s main bad guy is Rami Malek’s lacklustre Lyutsifer Safin. Read full review
60
New York Magazine (Vulture)Bilge EbiriSep 28, 2021
Amid the grit and the attempted emotional catharses and the sturm-und-drang, there is an actual Bond movie in there. No Time to Die is fun, but only when it dares to be. Read full review
60
The Hollywood ReporterDavid RooneySep 28, 2021
It may not rank up there with Skyfall, but it’s a moving valedictory salute to the actor who has left arguably the most indelible mark on the character since Connery. Read full review
60
The Irish TimesDonald ClarkeSep 28, 2021
Even an actor as good as Craig struggles to make sense of that more sensitive, more sharing version of Bond. Too many opposing cogs are creaking within a psyche that has never been much at home to contradiction. Then, towards the close, it comes together in such stirring form that only the most awkward customer will leave unsatisfied. Read full review
60
Screen RantMae AbdulbakiSep 28, 2021
Daniel Craig’s fifth and final outing as Bond is replete with fantastic action sequences and an emotional center despite the final act being shaky. Read full review
60
The IndependentClarisse LoughreySep 28, 2021
Cary Joji Fukunaga has made a smashing piece of action cinema with No Time to Die – it’s just a shame it had to be a Bond film. Read full review
58
UproxxVince ManciniOct 9, 2021
No Time To Die belatedly reveals that what we were watching wasn’t an action thriller or a kooky spy caper at all, but a melodrama, a kind of massive budget telenovela about an incorrigible heartbreaker finally allowing himself to be vulnerable and find true love. Read full review
50
The New YorkerRichard BrodyOct 12, 2021
The formulaic drama is of a piece with the movie’s action sequences, which exhaust their ingenuity from the get-go, with the Matera chase and shoot-out. Read full review
50
SlateSam AdamsSep 30, 2021
The movie can’t compete with the Missions: Impossible and Fast and Furiouses for visual spectacle, so what it offers by way of compensatory heft is a tangled plot full of double-crosses and hidden identities, combined with a ponderous gait that suggests that more than the mere world is at stake. Read full review
50
Vanity FairRichard LawsonSep 29, 2021
Craig is certainly sent off in grand fashion, but it’s a grandiosity that isn’t quite fitting for his run of films. Read full review
50
RogerEbert.comBrian TallericoSep 29, 2021
Even as it’s closing character arcs that started years ago, it feels like a film with too little at stake, a movie produced by a machine that was fed the previous 24 flicks and programmed to spit out a greatest hits package. Read full review
50
The New York TimesA.O. ScottSep 29, 2021
The overall vibe — a look that is both opulent and generic; a tone that mixes brisk professionalism with maundering self-pity; an aggressive, exhausting fusion of grandiosity and fun — is more superhero saga than espionage caper. Read full review
50
Slant MagazineKeith UhlichSep 29, 2021
This Bond’s overall arc from modishly merciless killing machine to aging assassin with the familial feels comes off as a treacly sop to psychological complexity. Read full review
50
The A.V. ClubA.A. Dowd Sep 29, 2021
No Time To Die is forgettable in all the places that usually count—it’s a Bond movie with little excitement or panache. Read full review
50
Little White LiesAdam WoodwardSep 28, 2021
For all its technical prowess, this is a contemporary action-thriller with a distinctly old-fashioned flavour; one eye on the future and both feet planted in the past. Read full review
50
Screen DailyJonathan RomneySep 28, 2021
There’s plenty to gawk at, and to argue over, in this episode - yet No Time To Die is oddly lacking in pleasure or real wit. Read full review
45
PolygonBeatrice LoayzaOct 8, 2021
It would be easier to be less cynical if No Time to Die convincingly delivered on its commitments to Bond’s humanity, rather than nudging it into a handful of scattered scenes, around a lumbering, half-baked drama spiked with explosions and car chases. Read full review
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