Tootsie is the best thing that's yet happened at this year end. It's a toot, a lark, a month in the country.

Vincent Canby

The New York Times

The film, as a whole, isn’t quite up to the phenomenal dexterity of its lead’s exertions. But there’s a legitimate reason people love this movie so much: Pollack syphoned Hoffman’s ecstatic electricity off into a popular and old-fashioned romantic-comedy formula, bringing it back to life. Tootsie is a remarkably gentle and human pop movie that informs the term “escapism” with an almost cleansing sense of decency.

Chuck Bowen

Slant Magazine