Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang: Critic Reviews

95%

MovieWeb: 0 reviews

84%

RottenTomatoes: 147 reviews

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Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

84

[A] deliriously enjoyable noir comedy-thriller.
Full Review » 7 years ago
A.O. Scott New York Times (Top Critic)

50

Shane Black's film noir is a movie with no particular reason for existing, a flashy, trifling throwaway whose surface cleverness masks a self-infatuated credulity.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Peter Bradshaw Guardian [UK] (Top Critic)

80

A very writerly film, incessantly displaying a preoccupation with its own storytelling structure and cheekily blowing the lid off other movies' tropes and wiles.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Mike Clark USA Today (Top Critic)

63

All three actors give it their all, but Monaghan stands out with a sexy yet oddly down-to-earth variation on the Midwest girl gone wrong, thanks partly to a dark dysfunctional family secret.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Desson Thomson Washington Post (Top Critic)

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang is the first movie since 1994's Pulp Fiction not just to understand movie violence as a pop cultural form ... but to play it like a virtuoso violinist.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Ty Burr Boston Globe (Top Critic)

75

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang is a terrific one-night stand, but you may wake up, as Harry does, and wonder exactly who you slept with.
Full Review » 7 years ago
J. Hoberman Village Voice (Top Critic)

Tongue planted in its cheek and elbow digging for your ribs, the movie is tricked out with a panoply of new wave stunts.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Jack Mathews New York Daily News (Top Critic)

63

Kiss Kiss is so inside Hollywood, so anxious to bite the hand that fed Black, that it plays like an elaborate prank.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Bruce Westbrook Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

63

Kiss Kiss may not smack of the truth or invite analysis, but in a warped way it gets the freaky job done.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Chris Vognar Dallas Morning News (Top Critic)

67

If you've seen your share of action flicks (who hasn't?) you should have no trouble chuckling. And nodding and winking.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Lisa Kennedy Denver Post (Top Critic)

75

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang is crass and crude, and loves every minute of it.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Anthony Lane New Yorker (Top Critic)

A slithery treat.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

63

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang contains a lot of comedy and invention, but doesn't much benefit from its clever style.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Robert K. Elder Chicago Tribune (Top Critic)

88

Black's retro-noir reminds us why we love movies: because they can surprise us, even when we're ankle deep in bullet casings, bodies and enough twists to tie us in knots.
Full Review » 7 years ago
J. R. Jones Chicago Reader (Top Critic)

[A] cheerful mess of a pulp-fiction parody, pumped full of laughs by Michelle Monaghan, Val Kilmer, and Robert Downey Jr.
Full Review » 5 years ago
Steven Rea Philadelphia Inquirer (Top Critic)

63

While Downey's rumpled insouciance jibes with the movie's jaded, narcissistic tone, it's a hard tone to take for a hundred minutes or so.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Jeff Strickler Minneapolis Star Tribune (Top Critic)

88

Movies don't get much cheesier than this -- or much more fun.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Tom Long Detroit News (Top Critic)

75

Fast, flashy and filled with gunplay, gumshoes and gangsters...
Full Review » 7 years ago
Bill Muller Arizona Republic (Top Critic)

80

A more-than-serviceable dark comedy.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Rex Reed New York Observer (Top Critic)

Vulgar, noisy, pointless and stupid.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Todd McCarthy Variety (Top Critic)

Perhaps too clever for its own good and so confusingly dense one is tempted to stop trying to follow the plot and just go along for the ride.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Lou Lumenick New York Post (Top Critic)

75

A hard-boiled hoot.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Roger Moore Orlando Sentinel (Top Critic)

80

Black has concocted a zany detective dramedy, a jokey, nocturnal Chinatown and an amazingly, amusingly verbose movie, all banter and hard-as-nails detective cliches.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Susan Walker Toronto Star (Top Critic)

63

[A] movie-lover's movie.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Liam Lacey Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

75

Pretty damned funny in its insubstantial, gratuitously violent, gratuitously everything way.
Full Review » 7 years ago