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By William Arnold (1,101) for Seattle Post-Intelligencer (2,422) on 04 Jan 2011

It's rowdy, often tasteless and very much in the buddy-action vein of the scripts that made him famous, but in a much more comic spirit…

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By Marc Savlov (2,019) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 21 Nov 2010

It's also a doozy of a comedy, matching the dark wit of Ross MacDonald's Lew Archer novels to the stylized theatrics of Matt Helm-era Dean Martin…

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By Lisa Schwarzbaum (1,672) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 20 Nov 2010

The deliriously enjoyable noir comedy-thriller Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang does nothing by halves and everything by doubles…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 24 Sep 2010

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

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By Nick Rogers (786) for The Film Yap (559) on 18 Sep 2010

Its wink-wink eyelids feel heavy from having seen so much in Hollywood and it turns out to be the best accidental detective story since The…

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By Fernando F. Croce (840) for CinePassion (694) on 31 Aug 2009

An effervescent ride buoyed in no small amount by the agility of the actors…

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By Ty Burr (2,612) for Boston Globe (6,852) on 16 May 2009

It's a merry deconstructive delight and easily the best party in town…

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By James Berardinelli (4,524) for ReelViews (4,523) on 13 Mar 2009

Robert Downey Jr. is perfect as Harry. He brings the right mix of cynicism, self-doubt, and unpretentiousness…

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By Saxon Bullock (36) for Film4 (1,522) on 27 Feb 2008

A raucous mix of black comedy and noir thriller…

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By Jason Gorber (520) for Film Scouts (224) on 20 Jun 2007

The film's more than a little bit tounge-in-cheek, and the constant winking at the audience could tire for some…

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By Steven Rea (1,872) for Philadelphia Inquirer (3,920) on 19 May 2007

Steeped in attitude - a smart-alecky, insider sarcasm that can be pretty clever at times, but also pretty insufferable…

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By Maitland Mcdonagh (2,150) for TV Guide Magazine (2,375) on 12 May 2007

This tribute to old-fashioned hard-boiled detective fiction is laced with Hollywood satire and snappy, lightning-fast dialogue…

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By David Edelstein (2,124) for Slate (2,081) on 31 Mar 2007

The comic surface of Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is all polished brilliance, with surprisingly few dull patches...The movie doesn't deliver in the…

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By Forrest Hartman (372) for Reno Gazette-Journal (441) on 08 Oct 2006

A good time for folks who like Raymond Chandler novels and action movies with a quirky side…

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By John Wrathall (11) for Sight and Sound (827) on 27 Sep 2006

It's the laugh-a-minute repartee of this odd couple that drives the movie far more than the ridiculously overly complicated plot…

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By Ben Walters (136) for Time Out (7,510) on 23 Jun 2006

An ultra-knowing exercise in genre deconstruction, and something of a charmer to boot…

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By Dennis Schwartz (5,456) for Ozus' World Movie Reviews (5,456) on 12 Jun 2006

It's a movie that becomes so taken with itself, that it seems to be doing the laughing instead of the viewer…

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By John J. Puccio (1,217) for Movie Metropolis (1,779) on 09 Jun 2006

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang remains mostly on target, sending up old detective stories and contemporary cinema simultaneously,…

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By Robert Roten (1,865) for Laramie Movie Scope (1,865) on 12 May 2006

A very funny send-up of hard-boiled L.A. detective movies like 'L.A. Confidential' and 'Chinatown…

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By Peter Debruge (1,557) for Miami Herald (3,319) on 01 Apr 2006

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang is a movie obsessed more with the act of telling a story than the story itself, which explains why, when the movie's finally…

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