Dr. No received a mixed critical reception. Time magazine called Bond a “blithering bounder” and “a great big hairy marshmallow” who “almost always manages to seem slightly silly”. Stanley Kauffmann in The New Republic wrote that he felt the film “never decides whether it is suspense or suspense-spoof”. He also did not like Connery, or the Fleming novels. The Vatican condemned Dr. No describing it as “a dangerous mixture of violence, vulgarity, sadism and sex”, whilst the Kremlin stated that Bond was the personification of capitalist evil – both controversies helped increase public awareness of the film and greater cinema attendance. However, Leonard Mosely in the Daily Express wrote that “Dr. No is fun all the way, and even the sex is harmless”, and Penelope Gilliatt in The Observer wrote it was “full of submerged self-parody”. The Guardian’s critic called Dr. No “crisp and well-tailored” and “a neat and gripping thriller”.