Film Fatale

CASINO ROYALE deals a new James Bond in Daniel Craig, and a better secret agent movie than the series has delivered in many years.

As Sarah Lyall writes in the New York Times, "Now even the meanest-spirited, most Sean Connery-nostalgic critics in Britain seem to have been charmed out of their bad attitudes by Mr. Craig’s performance as a gritty, steely James Bond in the latest Bond film, “Casino Royale.” Contrary to their predictions, they say, the 38-year-old Mr. Craig is not too blond, too wimpy, too dough-faced or too lightweight for the part.''