10. Casino Royale
Remember Casino Royale, when Daniel Craig was the new, young version of James Bond who had only just earned his licence to kill? Shockingly, by the time we reach November 2016, this will have been ten whole years ago. In Spectre, Bond feels a bit too old to be seducing Lea Seydoux, and in Skyfall, he struggled to pass a fitness examination, but back in 2006, Daniel Craig was very much the new kid on the block, lumbered with the not-so-simple task of being the face of a dark, Bourne-esque remodelling of the Bond franchise. This is, lest we forget, a remodel that still makes big money for MGM and Sony to this day. Skyfall and Spectre are so lucrative because Casino Royale laid the groundwork. This is the film where Daniel Craig offered us a new take on 007, and director Martin Campbell reinvented what a Bond film could do. As gritty as it is glamorous, Casino Royale blends the old and the new marvellously well. The gambling scenes couldve worked for Connery, but the emotionality and vulnerability of Craigs incarnation feels like a breath of fresh air. Ten years on, many still argue that this is Craigs best Bond movie.