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Dr. No (1962) IMDb

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Pulp superspy thriller. Sean Connery as James Bond.

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From Russia with Love (1963) IMDb

Categorization	Sean Connery as James Bond.
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Goldfinger (1964) IMDb

Categorization	Sean Connery as James Bond.
Commentary	Seeing this as a child, I did not reflect on the rape culture expressed in Bond’s “conquest” of a clearly unwilling Pussy Galore by violence.
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Thunderball (1965) IMDb

Categorization	Sean Connery as James Bond.
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You Only Live Twice (1967) IMDb

Categorization	Sean Connery as James Bond.
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On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969) IMDb

Categorization	George Lazenby as James Bond.
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Diamonds Are Forever (1971) IMDb

Categorization	Sean Connery as James Bond.
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Live and Let Die (1973) IMDb

Categorization	Roger Moore as James Bond.
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The Man with the Golden Gun (1974) IMDb

Categorization	Roger Moore as James Bond.
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The Spy Who Loved Me (1977) IMDb

Categorization	Roger Moore as James Bond.
Commentary	This is the way to do pulp superagents.
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Moonraker (1979) IMDb

Categorization	Roger Moore as James Bond.
Commentary	Kitsch.
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Octopussy (1983) IMDb

Categorization	Roger Moore as James Bond.
Commentary	The name, at least, is hard to beat.
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Never Say Never Again (1983) IMDb

Extent	Seen in 2014.
Categorization	Sean Connery as James Bond.
Commentary	The writing of Blush is moronic, but the hideous racism of the auction at Palmyra—no connection to the Syrian Palmyra—tops it off nicely.
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A View to a Kill (1985) IMDb

Categorization	Roger Moore as James Bond.
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Licence to Kill (1989) IMDb

Categorization	Timothy Dalton as James Bond.
Commentary	Politically docile genre meltdown.
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GoldenEye (1995) IMDb

Categorization	Pierce Brosnan as James Bond.
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Casino Royale (2006) IMDb

Extent	Seen in 2013.
Categorization	Daniel Craig as James Bond.
Commentary	A good deal less cartoonish than most of its predecessors, but no less obsessed with gadgets and hysterical masculinity. Boring poker sequences and overblown action set pieces.
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