Blessed with the right script and cast, Seidelman crafts the perfect tone – a grounded whimsy that allows the fairy tale elements to take flight.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 5, 2024

Madonna remains the movie’s megawatt performance and drips with the knowing charisma of a star whose time has come.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 21, 2024

This modern bohemian take on the classic screwball comedy (complete with amnesia, mistaken identity, and a stolen treasure treated as second-hand jewelry) is also a great time capsule of the New York street culture of the 1980s.

| Apr 6, 2024

...rough-edged and willing to be weird; its interiors and lighting are more extreme, its characters are grittier...

| May 24, 2023

Oozing New Wave attitude and drenched in NYC ambience.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 29, 2021

There are moments when the picture seems acutely aware of its sleepily idiosyncratic ways, and there are times when it feels hopelessly aimless.

| Original Score: B- | Sep 21, 2020

A few scenes are very funny, but the picture would have worked much better if Seidelman had thrown away half the dialogue and built some momentum.

| Dec 31, 2019

[Director] Susan Seidelman's comedy really picks up, with genuinely amusing if not wildly hilarious results.

| Aug 21, 2019

An attractive, energetic young cast and some witty, off-center visual humor make the resultant laughs more than worth the wait.

| Apr 9, 2019

More central to the popularity of "Susan" is the way it allows the audience to feel hip.

| Jan 2, 2018

"Desperately Seeking Susan" (accurately rated PG-13) is a lark, an exhilarating celebration of people who have the good sense to be in touch with themselves and with each other.

| Dec 6, 2017

Conjures an impossibly cool, fairy tale New York. One of those movies I wish I could live inside.

| Aug 11, 2017

Director Susan Seidelman guides her cast with a light, enthusiastic touch, never making more out of her frothy material than need be.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 23, 2008

All of this is cause for consistent smiling and a few outright laughs, without ever building to complete comedy.

| May 23, 2008

The film acquires a pleasant, syncopated rhythm as it bounces from one unlikely event to another.

| May 23, 2008

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 29, 2007

Featuring the first (and only decent) screen performance by Madona, this charming comedy imposes the old fracical gimmick of amnesia on a hip and stylish East Village milieu.

| Original Score: B | Jun 20, 2006

Even if the plotting (a mistaken identity farce involving that old chestnut, amnesia brought on by a bump to the head) is square as a square peg. Madonna has never found a better fit than the role of Susan.

| Jan 26, 2006

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Nov 7, 2005

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 24, 2005