Daniel Craig's best performances, ranked by critics

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 5%

Daniel Craig had a supporting role in Disney's critically panned and often forgotten 1995 adaptation of Mark Twain's novel "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court."

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 6%

After quitting his lucrative publishing job in New York, Will Atenton (Daniel Craig), his wife (Weisz), and their two daughters move into their dream suburban home, which quickly, and rather predictably, turns into a nightmare.

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 10%

The film retells the true story of the Italian writer and environmentalist Kuki Gallman who left her life in Europe to start anew in the African wilderness with her son.

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 19%

Scientists Carol Bennell (Nicole Kidman) and Dr. Ben Driscoll (Daniel Craig) are the only two people on Earth who are aware of an incoming epidemic, and the film follows the pair as they desperately try to save the world before it's too late.

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 21%

Craig had a supporting role in the first edition of Angelina Jolie's critically panned video game adaptation.

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 37%

In 2003's "Sylvia," Craig is a charming partner to the troubled but utterly genius poet, Sylvia Plath.

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 38%

In "Flashbacks of a Fool," Daniel Craig plays a Hollywood actor who, following the death of his childhood best friend, returns home to England and begins to reflect upon his life and what might have been if he stayed in England.

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 39%

Set in South Africa during World War 2, "The Power of One" depicts the life of Peter Philip Kenneth-Keith, an English South African boy raised under apartheid.

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 40%

After being released from a psychiatric hospital, Ray (Daniel Craig) moves in with his brother and attempts to control the voices that make noise in his head.

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 42%

Daniel Craig rounds out an impressive ensemble in this well-acted but ultimately facile adaption of Phillip Pullman's novel "Northern Lights."

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 44%

Amnesiac war veteran Jack Starks (Adrien Brody) can't explain why he's been found at the scene of a murder and is ordered to a mental hospital, where he is subjected to the brutal treatment of a sinister doctor.

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 44%

Jon Favreau directs Craig in the big-budget "Cowboys & Aliens." A genre mix-up with big ideas and performances.

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 49%

Set in a futuristic imagining of Paris, Daniel Craig voices a seasoned detective who is drafted in by a huge corporation to help find one of their missing scientists.

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 58%

In 1941 as the Nazis make their way through Eastern Europe, three Jewish brothers — Tuvia (Daniel Craig), Zus (Liev Schreiber), and Asael (Jamie Bell) — escape and join Russian resistance fighters to fight against the fascist occupation.

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 59%

After randomly witnessing a fatal accident on the street, Joe (Daniel Craig) and Jed (Rhys Ifans) becoming increasingly close, resulting in dangerous consequences.

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 63%

Craig plays an aging version of the world's most famous secret agent in 2015's "Spectre," British director Sam Mendes' last Bond film.

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 65%

In his second and arguably most formulaic outing as James Bond, Craig seeks revenge for the death of his lover.

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 68%

"Love Is the Devil: Study for a Portrait of Francis Bacon" is a 1998 British television film about the life of painter Francis Bacon starring Daniel Craig, Tilda Swinton, and Derek Jacobi.

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 74%

Craig plays a mischievous villain in this thrilling animated adventure from legendary filmmaker Steven Spielberg.

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 74%

The film is based on George Plimpton's 1997 book "Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintances, and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career" and follows Capote, played by Toby Jones, as he researched and wrote his bestselling novel "In Cold Blood."

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 78%

In Steven Spielberg's thrilling historical drama, Craig is recruited by the Israeli government to secretly assassinate 11 Palestinian terrorists involved in the Munich massacre at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 80%

Daniel Craig plays a drug dealer who has decided to leave his criminal life behind when he is pulled into one final job: kidnapping the daughter of a rival mobster.

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 81%

Straight after the success of "American Beauty" British director Sam Mendes enlisted Tom Hanks, Daniel Craig, and Jennifer Jason Leigh for his 1930's set mob thriller.

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 82%

In 2011's "Elizabeth," Daniel Craig plays the infamous priest John Ballard who was hung, drawn, and quartered for his role in a scheme to assassinate Queen Elizabeth.

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 86%

In David Fincher's psychological drama, Daniel Craig plays a journalist who enlists a computer hacker played by Rooney Mara to uncover what happened to a woman who has suddenly disappeared.

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 92%

In his first attempt at the Bond franchise, British director Sam Mendes (American Beauty) and Craig rejuvenated the long-running franchise with dark action sequences that stand as some of the best in its history.

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 92%

With his dyed bleach blonde hair, Daniel Craig provides the most memorable performance in Steven Soderbergh's wacky ensemble crime comedy-drama.

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 94%

"Fateless" is a moving drama based on a semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by the Nobel Prize winner Imre Kertész, who also wrote the screenplay. It tells the story of a young Jewish boy who is sent to Auschwitz during World War II.

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 95%

"Casino Royale" is a stripped-down and serious Bond film with Daniel Craig, in his first outing as 007, offering fans a slick and intense performance.

Rotten Tomatoes critic score: 97%

The circumstances surrounding the death of famous crime novelist Harlan Thrombey are mysterious, and when the eccentric Detective Benoit Blanc (Daniel Craig) journeys to New England to solve the crime, he finds a suspect in each member of the dysfunctional Thrombey family.

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