From Russia with Love 1963

Bosley Crowther, New York Times: 007 is very much with us again, and anyone who hasn't yet got to know him is urged to do so right away! Read more

Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader: For my money, still the best Bond, with a screwball plotline that keeps the locales changing and the surprises coming. Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: Standing at the pinnacle of the series, From Russia with Love shows how good a Bond film can be when all the ingredients mesh. Read more

TIME Magazine: Sophisticated? Well, not really. But fast, smart, shrewdly directed and capably performed. Read more

Derek Adams, Time Out: The film lacks the exotic, colourful flamboyance of the best of its successors. So shoot me. Read more

Variety Staff, Variety: From Russia with Love is a preposterous, skillful slab of hardhitting, sexy hokum. Read more