Daniel M. Kimmel (born 1955) is an American film critic and author.
He is a past president and current member of the Boston Society of Film Critics.
Kimmel is the author of several books and has co-written a play The Waldorf Conference about the Hollywood blacklist.
His 2004 history of Fox, The Fourth Network, received the Cable Center Award for best book of the year.
It's a Secret was on the shortlist for the Compton Crook Award given to best first novel by the Baltimore Science Fiction Society.