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Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 80
    Washington Post | Hal Hinson

    And yet, Goldeneye proves the character's viability as a pop icon: It isn't a great movie, but it's great, preposterous fun. Read full review

  • 80
    Variety | Todd McCarthy

    Most crucially, Brosnan makes the grade as 007. He handles the action capably and gets the standard quips out in a commendably straightforward way that's wry but not dismissive. Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Peter Stack

    When the action is extreme, GoldenEye is supercharged with spectacular, thundering, brain-numbing fun. Read full review

  • 75
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    This is the first Bond film that is self-aware, that has lost its innocence and the simplicity of its world view, and has some understanding of the absurdity and sadness of its hero. Read full review

  • 70
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    A mildly successful attempt at updating a relic, its appeal depends greatly on an audience's willingness to go along for a familiar ride. [17Nov1995 Pg. F.01] Read full review

  • 70
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    New Bond man Brosnan can't be faulted for much. He's always been generically sexy, a sort of programmed cover boy. In this new venture, he's appropriately handsome, British-accented and suave. Read full review

  • 63
    USA Today | Susan Wloszczyna

    The musical score is a dud, and the film is one firebomb too long. But GoldenEye's vision is 20/20 when it comes to reviving a legend. [17Nov1995 Pg.01.D] Read full review

  • 58
    Entertainment Weekly | Owen Gleiberman

    Still, just about everything in Goldeneye, from its rote nuclear-weapon-in-space plot to the recitation of lines that sound like they're being read off stone tablets (''Shaken, not stirred!''), has been served up with a thirdhand generic competence that's more wearying than it is exhilarating. Read full review

  • 50
    Newsweek |

    Technology has squeezed character to a few measly pixels on the digital screens. Explosions have replaced dramatic climaxes. Read full review

  • 50
    The New York Times | Elvis Mitchell

    Mr. Brosnan, as the best-moussed Bond ever to play baccarat in Monte Carlo, makes the character's latest personality transplant viable (not to mention smashingly photogenic), but the series still suffers the blahs. Read full review

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