"In 2014 "Time Out" polled several film critics, directors, actors and stunt actors to list their top action films; "From Russia With Love" was listed at 69.The British Film Institute's screenonline guide called the film "one of the series' high points" and said it "had advantages not enjoyed by many later Bond films, notably an intelligent script that retained the substance of Ian Fleming's novel while toning down the overt Cold War politics (the Cuban Missile Crisis had only occurred the previous year)."