Daniel M. Kimmel is an American film critic and author.

Kimmel is a correspondent for Variety, a television columnist for The Boston Herald, a film reviewer for the Telegram & Gazette, a writer for both The Internet Review of Science Fiction and Space and Time, movie critic for The Jewish Advocate, and a reviewer for both NorthShoreMovies.net and the Sci-Fi Movie Page.

Kimmel is the author The Fourth Network: How FOX Broke the Rules and Reinvented Television, Love Stories: Hollywood's Most Romantic Movies, Isn't It Romantic, The Dream Team – The Rise and Fall of DreamWorks: Lessons from the New Hollywood, I'll Have What She's Having: Behind the Scenes of the Great Romantic Comedies, Jar Jar Binks Must Die ... And Other Observations About Science Fiction Films, and Shh! It's a Secret – A Novel About Aliens, Hollywood, and the Bartender's Guide.