Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (1968) is Pauline Kael's second collection of reviews from 1965 through 1968, compiled from numerous magazines including The Atlantic, Holiday, The New Yorker, Life, Mademoiselle, The New Republic, McCall's, and Vogue.

This is erroneously considered to be the reason why she was fired from her short-lived position as their film critic.

In her note on the title which begins the book, Kael asserts that these words are "perhaps the briefest statement imaginable of the basic appeal of movies.

This appeal is what attracts us, and ultimately what makes us despair when we begin to understand how seldom movies are more than this."

The title itself is a reference to the character of James Bond, who was often referred to as Mr Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang in international markets;[citation needed] the original theme song for the 1965 Bond film Thunderball was to have had this title.