Daniel M. Kimmel (born 1955) is an American film critic and author.
In September 2014, he became editor of The Jewish Advocate, where he served through December 2015. He received a B.A. from the University of Rochester and a degree in law from Boston University.
Kimmel was the Boston correspondent for Variety from 1986 to 2013, and has been a TV columnist for The Boston Herald. From 1984 to 2009, he was a film reviewer. His reviews can be found at NorthShoreMovies.net and the Sci-Fi Movie Page. His essays on classic science fiction films were being published in The Internet Review of Schience Fiction from 2005-2010 and are now in Space and Time.
He is a past president and current member of the Boston Society of Film Critics. In May 2012, he became founding co-chair of the Boston Online Film Critics Association.