Highly enjoyable in spite of certain weakness.

Full Review | May 7, 2024

[Tootsie] has what the best screwball comedies had: a Can-you-top-this? quality.

Full Review | Sep 12, 2023

There are brains behind the film which allow it to be funny and provocative in its observations on gender roles and women’s equality.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 27, 2022

It all comes together with some sensationally dry humor - the kind of comedy that feels natural, realistic, and spontaneous.

Full Review | Original Score: 8/10 | Sep 8, 2020

[Hoffman gives] a remarkable dual performance, as profound as it is funny.

Full Review | Feb 26, 2020

Tootsie (1982) is an engaging, original, hilarious gender-comedy story of an unemployed actor Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman) whose disguises as a feminist named "Dorothy" fooled his/her co-actors and helped him get a job and become a female star

Full Review | Original Score: A+ | Sep 29, 2019

Tootsie is a brilliant and intelligent movie that can interest the public because of its originality. [Full Review in Spanish]

Full Review | Aug 28, 2019

Both [Garr and Lange] are excellent, and Miss Lange continues her promise to become a superstar of the 1980s.

Full Review | Nov 12, 2018

Shadow-boxing his way downtown, Dorsey suddenly yells, "I'm a great character actor; I can play anybody!" In Tootsie, Hoffman proves that he just about can.

Full Review | Jan 30, 2018

It's a movie with a lot on its mind - while never toppling over under the weight of its good intentions.

Full Review | May 30, 2016

Tootsie's finely balanced writing is one of the film's greatest strengths, being consistently funny without ever turning the central premise into a gag.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 18, 2016

What makes Tootsie a smart, enduring comedy instead of a silly, momentary one is its real sympathy for women.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 12, 2015

a wonderful movie, full of warmth and good humor balanced with both farcical silliness and level-headed recognition of certain social truths about the sexes we often want to ignore

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Jan 9, 2015

A comedy of surprisingly refined class for 1982...

Full Review | Sep 8, 2013

Touching romantic comedy with a twist.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 2, 2011

Hoffman is magnificent in his dual role, though it's Bill Murray who stealthily steals scenes.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/4 | Oct 12, 2010

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Apr 30, 2009

It is not just the best comedy of the year; it is popular art on the way to becoming cultural artifact.

Full Review | Oct 5, 2008

I found this polished sitcom comedy to be a drag.

Full Review | Original Score: C+ | Jun 5, 2008

A sparkling turn by Hoffman and an absolutely fabulous cast make this a risk -- and a risque -- success.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | May 26, 2008