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Skyfall :: Rogerebert.Com :: Reviews movie reviews Reviews Great Movies Answer Man People Commentary Festivals Oscars Glossary One-Minute Reviews Letters Roger Ebert's Journal Scanners Store News Sports Business Entertainment Classifieds Columnists search SKYFALL (PG-13) Ebert: Users: You: Rate this movie right now GO Search powered by YAHOO! register You are not logged in. Log in » Subscribe to weekly newsletter » times & tickets in theaters Fandango Search movie The Bay showtimes and buy Francine tickets. Skyfall Holy Motors Lincoln Nobody Walks BY ROGER EBERT / November 7, 2012 Older Children about us A Royal Affair In this 50th year of the Skyfall About the site » James Bond series, with the dismal "Quantum of cast & credits more current releases » Site FAQs » Solace" (2008) still in our minds, "Skyfall" James Bond Daniel Craig one-minute movie reviews Contact us » triumphantly reinvents 007 M Judi Dench in one of the best Bonds Silva Javier Bardem still playing Email the Movie ever. This is a full-blooded, Mallory Ralph Fiennes Answer Man » joyous, intelligent Eve Naomie Harris About Cherry celebration of a beloved Q Ben Whishaw Alex Cross cultural icon, with Daniel Kincade Albert Finney Alps on sale now Craig taking full possession The Ambassador of a role he earlier played The American Scream Columbia Pictures presents a film well in "Casino Royale," not Arbitrage directed by Sam Mendes. Written so well in "Quantum" -- Argo although it may not have by Neal Purvis, Robert Wade and The Awakening been entirely his fault. Or is John Logan, based on Ian Fleming's The Bay it just that he's growing on characters. Running time: 143 Beloved me? I don't know what I minutes. Rated PG-13 (for intense Brooklyn Castle Chasing Mavericks expected. I don't know what violent sequences throughout, Chicken with Plums some sexuality, language and I expected in Bond No. 23, Cloud Atlas Buy now » but certainly not an smoking). Compliance experience this invigorating. Cosmopolis Detropia The movie's innovations Easy Money begin in its first shots, which End of Watch abandon the familiar Escape Fire: The Fight to Rescue American Healthcare stalking silhouettes in the The Flat iris lens, and hit the ground Flight running. Bond and another For a Good Time Call... agent are in Istanbul, For Ellen Buy now » chasing a man who has Francine Frankenweenie stolen a crucial hard drive, Go to Ebert's James Bond and after a chase through Fred Won't Move Out Watch It page » Head Games city streets (involving no Hello I Must Be Going less than three Fruit Cart Hit and Run Scenes), 007 is running on Holy Motors top of a train. We know The House I Live In from earlier films that Bond How to Survive a Plague can operate almost Keep the Lights On Buy now » anything, but "Skyfall" Printer-friendly » A Late Quartet incredibly has him E-mail this to a friend » Lawless commandeer a giant Liberal Arts Caterpillar and continue the Caterpillar and continue the Lincoln chase by crushing a flatcar Little White Lies filled with VW Beetles. The Loneliest Planet Looper It's the kind of absurd stunt we expect in a Bond movie, but this one The Master relies on something unexpected: a dead-serious M (Judi Dench), Middle of Nowhere following the action from M16 in London and making a fateful Nobody Else But You decision. After an enemy agent grabs Bond as a human shield, M's Nobody Walks Buy now » other agent, Eve (Naomie Harris), has both men in her gun sights. Now, Forager: A Film About Love and Fungi The stakes are very high. "Take the shot!" M commands. Bond The Odd Life of Timothy Green seems to die, although since this happens around the 20-minute Older Children mark, we're not very surprised that he doesn't. Oslo, August 31 The Other Son M begins to compose the obituary of Commander James Bond, and The Paperboy The Perks of Being a Wallflower she might as well also be writing her own. Time has passed her by, Pitch Perfect she's older, and her new boss, Mallory (Ralph Fiennes), convenes a The Possession public (!) hearing requiring her to defend her tenure. It's time for a Premium Rush generation to be put out to pasture. Even Q and, as it turns out, Miss Pusher Buy now » Moneypenny are practically kids. Red Hook Summer Robot and Frank M is not quire ready to retire, and "Skyfall" at last provides a role A Royal Affair worthy of Judi Dench, one of the best actors of her generation. She is Samsara all but the co-star of the film, with a lot of screen time, poignant The Sessions dialogue, and a character who is far more complex and sympathetic Seven Psychopaths than we expect in this series. The film is guided by a considerable Shun Li and the Poet director (Sam Mendes), written by the heavyweights Neal Purvis, Simon and the Oaks Robert Wade and John Logan, and delivers not only a terrific Bond Sinister Skyfall but a terrific movie, period. If you haven't seen a 007 for years, this is Buy now » Sleepwalk with Me the time to jump back in. Smashed Snowman's Land There's a theory that you can grade the Bonds on the quality of their Sparkle villains. In "Skyfall," this is a cerebral megalomanic named Silva, Taken 2 played by Javier Bardem, whose unpronounceable Anton Chigurh in Trouble with the Curve "No Country for Old Men" approached the high-water mark of 2 Days in New York Hannibal Lecter. Here he plays a bleached blond computer whiz who V/H/S stole the drive containing the guarded identities of every M16 agent. Wake in Fright Are we supposed to think of Julian Assange? The Well-Digger's Daughter Buy now» Why Stop Now This is a brand-new Bond with love and respect for the old Bond. This Won't Back Down is dramatized during Bond's visit to the weathered Scottish mansion The Words Wreck-It Ralph inhabited by Kincade (Albert Finney), which has secrets to divulge You've Been Trumped and continues the movie's rewriting of the character's back story. During the early Bonds, did we ever even ask ourselves about 007's more current releases » origins in life? "Skyfall" even produces a moment designed to inspire love in Bond fans: a reappearance of the Aston Martin DB5 from "Goldfinger," which remains in good operating condition. on dvd Buy now» Just as Christopher Nolan gave rebirth to the Batman movies in "The new on dvd Dark Knight," here is James Bond lifted up, dusted off, set back on his feet and ready for another 50 years. And am I completely more new on dvd » misguided when I expect to see Miss Moneypenny become a Bond girl in the next film? coming on dvd I'm double-posting my review of "Skyfall" to encourage comments, which my main site can't accept. 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