This is a film obsessed both by its characters’ personal histories, and by its own. But it really soars when it is smartly combining the old with the new.

With his long upper lip and reluctance to crack a smile, [Daniel Craig] could have made his mark as the only grumpy Bond, but the pulsing intelligence behind the gloom has transformed it into gravitas without slowing down his performance.

No Time To Die is, on balance, a kinetic, expansive and stirring capstone to Craig's adventures in those perfectly tailored Tom Ford suits.

An excellent achievement.