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Peter Debruge, Miami Herald: The movie's self-referential snarkiness borders on too clever for its own good, but there's no denying the fresh new edge to this one-time Hollywood hotshot's directorial debut. Read more
Kenneth Turan, Los Angeles Times: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang turns into a film that is too ostentatiously pleased with itself, so in love with its own cleverness it doesn't notice it's darn near worn you out. Read more
Roger Moore, Orlando Sentinel: 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. Read more
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer: 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. Read more
Lou Lumenick, New York Post: A smart, hilarious and affec tionate spoof of detective movies -- and Hollywood -- starring the inspired team of Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer. Read more
Rex Reed, New York Observer: Vulgar, noisy, pointless and stupid. Read more
Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal: [Robert Downey Jr. is] the quickest, sharpest, slyest and wryest comic actor on the screen. Read more
Tom Keogh, Seattle Times: Black misses the mark here and there, but the film never stands still and bad jokes are quickly displaced by good ones. Read more
Mick LaSalle, San Francisco Chronicle: Black's postmodern take lives up to its title, though an added Laugh Laugh might have said it all. Read more
David Edelstein, Slate: Downey spins joyfully back and forth between farce and realism. Is there any leading man more fun to watch? Read more
Richard Roeper, Ebert & Roeper: A frenzied, stylish, very funny inside joke. Read more
Eleanor Ringel Gillespie, Atlanta Journal-Constitution: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang could be construed as a kind of oblique mea culpa, but Black is having too much fun to seem all that apologetic. Read more
Keith Phipps, AV Club: The movie itself may be the slyest bit of all, proving that it's possible to come back not just adequately, but better than before. Read more
Bill Muller, Arizona Republic: A more-than-serviceable dark comedy. Read more
Ty Burr, Boston Globe: 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. Read more
J. R. Jones, Chicago Reader: [A] cheerful mess of a pulp-fiction parody, pumped full of laughs by Michelle Monaghan, Val Kilmer, and Robert Downey Jr. Read more
Robert K. Elder, Chicago Tribune: 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. Read more
Bruce Westbrook, Houston Chronicle: Kiss Kiss may not smack of the truth or invite analysis, but in a warped way it gets the freaky job done. Read more
Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor: Raucously entertaining. Read more
Lisa Kennedy, Denver Post: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang is crass and crude, and loves every minute of it. Read more
Christy Lemire, Associated Press: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang is as much fun as the title suggests, and packed with banter that rolls off the tongue just as easily. Read more
Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly: [A] deliriously enjoyable noir comedy-thriller. Read more
Chris Vognar, Dallas Morning News: If you've seen your share of action flicks (who hasn't?) you should have no trouble chuckling. And nodding and winking. Read more
Mark Olsen, L.A. Weekly: Among the biggest surprises of the year. Read more
Jan Stuart, Newsday: Hard-boiled dialogue and drop-dead attitude rarely hit their target as hilariously as they do in Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang. Read more
David Ansen, Newsweek: Jumpy and ironic, Downey is a quicksilver delight and Kilmer is funny as the gay Perry. Read more
Anthony Lane, New Yorker: A slithery treat. Read more
Jack Mathews, New York Daily News: Kiss Kiss is so inside Hollywood, so anxious to bite the hand that fed Black, that it plays like an elaborate prank. Read more
A.O. Scott, New York Times: 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. Read more
Craig Outhier, Orange County Register: Kiss Kiss is such a delightful bombardment, we barely notice that Black's convoluted, serpentine plot doesn't make a lick of sense. Read more
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang contains a lot of comedy and invention, but doesn't much benefit from its clever style. Read more
Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: I couldn't have liked it more. Read more
Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: Movies don't get much cheesier than this -- or much more fun. Read more
Christopher Orr, The Atlantic: The plot of the film is almost willfully convoluted. But it's also largely beside the point, an excuse for quite a few good scenes, most of them equal parts homage and subversion. Read more
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail: Pretty damned funny in its insubstantial, gratuitously violent, gratuitously everything way. Read more
Susan Walker, Toronto Star: [A] movie-lover's movie. Read more
Ben Walters, Time Out: An ultra-knowing exercise in genre deconstruction, and something of a charmer to boot. Read more
Mike Clark, USA Today: 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. Read more
Todd McCarthy, Variety: 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. Read more
J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Tongue planted in its cheek and elbow digging for your ribs, the movie is tricked out with a panoply of new wave stunts. Read more
Desson Thomson, Washington Post: 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. Read more