It’s no Skyfall, but it’s a solid, if ultimately bureaucratic, thriller.

The release of any new James Bond film is cause for looking back on the series to date. Here’s what our staff thinks of the many adventures of MI6’s Agent 007.

James Bond’s 23rd big-screen adventure rocks hard, somberly and even mournfully. It doesn’t celebrate the glamorous lifestyle of a dashing spy so much as it makes you worry about him and his Ma’am.

If last week’s review of Michel Gondry’s The Science of Sleep was about a movie that tried to make real life look like a comic book, Christian Volckman’s first feature-length film, Renaissance, tries to make a comic book look like real life. The basis of the movie’s imagery is motion capture technology, by which the movements of an actor’s body are recorded by sensors attached to his clothing (used memorably by Peter Jackson in the…