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Avg. Critic Score: 72 out of 100 Generally favorable reviews Metascore® based on all critic reviews
Information for Parents:
17 not for kids
Read Common Sense Media review

Critic scores range from 0 to 100, with higher scores indicating more favorable reviews.

  • 91
    Entertainment Weekly | Lisa Schwarzbaum

    The deliriously enjoyable noir comedy-thriller Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang does nothing by halves and everything by doubles. Read full review

  • 80
    Washington Post | Desson Thomson

    Macabre, yes, but the movie's also inventive and funny. You get a lot of smart bang-bang for your buck. Read full review

  • 75
    San Francisco Chronicle | Mick LaSalle

    Has some hilarious moments and still succeeds in dramatic terms. Read full review

  • 75
    Rolling Stone | Peter Travers

    Shane Black creates a movie that is defiantly smartass and too cool for the room. I couldn't have liked it more. Read full review

  • 70
    The Hollywood Reporter | Kirk Honeycutt

    Downey and Monaghan are wonderful at playing characters that compensate for the harshness of their past with flippant swaggers. Read full review

  • 70
    Variety | Todd McCarthy

    Once again making a diverting but insubstantial movie look better than it is, Downey, with haggard charm to burn, is winning all the way. Kilmer is riotous at times as an impeccably groomed, businesslike guy keen to assert his orientation at every opportunity. Read full review

  • 63
    Chicago Sun-Times | Roger Ebert

    Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang contains a lot of comedy and invention, but doesn't much benefit from its clever style. The characters and plot are so promising that maybe Black should have backed off and told the story deadpan, instead of mugging so shamelessly for laughs. Read full review

  • 63
    USA Today | Mike Clark

    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 full review

  • 50
    The New York Times | Dana Stevens

    It's just a movie with no particular reason for existing, a flashy, trifling throwaway whose surface cleverness masks a self-infatuated credulity. Read full review

  • 50
    Los Angeles Times | Kenneth Turan

    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 full review


Information for Parents
Common Sense Media says not for kids Choppy L.A. thriller. Absolutely not for kids.
What Parents Need to Know Parents need to know that this movie contains explicit violence, nudity, swearing, and drug use. It's not appropriate for kids and teens.
  • Families can talk about remaining true to one's convictions in difficult or out-of-the-ordinary situations. When, if ever, is the use of violence "okay?" Is it ever acceptable to tell lies or steal?
The good stuff
  • message true0 Positive messages: Killing, lying, stealing, etc.
What to watch for
  • violence false5 Violence: Violent killing; dead bodies; dismemberment.
  • sex false5 Sex: Nudity, sexual situations. A main character is gay.
  • language false5 Language: Lots of cussing, including all the big "four-letter words."
  • consumerism false0 Consumerism: Not an issue
  • drugsalcoholtobacco false3 Drinking, drugs and smoking: Drinking, smoking, some drugs.

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