 "From Russia with Love" is effectively paced and plotted, features a gallery of detestable rogues (including the ultimate Bond villain, Blofeld), and offers countless thrills".In June 2001 Neil Smith of "BBC Films" called it "a film that only gets better with age".In 2004, "Total Film" magazine named it the ninth-greatest British film of all time, making it the only James Bond film to appear on the list.