Susie Searches

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Susie Searches

2023

1h 45m

Comedy

Mystery & Thriller

Drama

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How far will a podcaster go to capture her audience? Susie, an awkward college student with a failing true-crime podcast, seizes the opportunity to boost her campus and online popularity by solving the mystery of the missing home-town heart-throb. But things take a dark turn as Susie digs out the truth and soon finds herself in over her head.

Critics Consensus

Susie Searches is clever and frequently fun, although its jumbled tone and increasingly hard-to-believe story undercut overall enjoyment.

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Noel Murray

Los Angeles Times

07/31/2023

As a Hitchcockian thriller with a slippery hero, this film can be ruthlessly effective.

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Monica Castillo

RogerEbert.com

07/28/2023

1/4

If “Susie Searches” wanted to critique the true-crime podcast trend, it could have done so more directly. For now, we have a movie at odds with itself and its main character.

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Natalia Winkelman

New York Times

07/27/2023

Despite its narrative shortcomings, the film builds a tense and mischievous mood that acts as its hook.

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Kristen Maldonado

Pop Culture Planet

05/01/2025

There are so many solid twists and turns as we follow this girl detective with a dark desire for recognition. [...] The mystery is pieced together really well and, if you go in without knowing anything, it’ll really surprise you.

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David Bax

Battleship Pretension

10/30/2024

Despite the great cast, the characters are too thinly drawn to be captivating.

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Farah Cheded

A Good Movie To Watch

10/28/2023

Though it may play better with younger audiences, anyone else will likely find its promising cast to be the biggest red herring of all.

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Melissa L

@Agent99 01/27/2024

It's a great movie and just when it's almost over, and just when the kidnapper/murderer seems to have gotten away...perhaps justice will be served.

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Siobhan

@RT77587229 01/06/2024

It's a movie…. I left the movie being like "okay well that happened" The actors are great, but I still don't know what I was supposed to feel for the characters or what the movie was trying to portray…

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Dhanu K

@RT34477984 12/27/2023

Susie Searches is a solid fun and entertaining mystery thriller that works largely because of Kiersey Clemons' portrayal of a compelling central character. Narratively speaking, it could have benefited from further refinement and elaboration, however, the film is clever enough to build tension and a malicious mood.

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Ted R

@RT75769133 10/15/2023

What a fun movie! Weird, dark humor. It was very typical of a movie audiences love but snotty critics hate.

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Anthony T

@Straight2VOD 07/29/2023

The whole time while watching, Susie Searches I could help but wish this had been made into a limited series rather than a feature length film and after that ending I think this needs to happen ASAP.

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Synopsis

How far will a podcaster go to capture her audience? Susie, an awkward college student with a failing true-crime podcast, seizes the opportunity to boost her campus and online popularity by solving the mystery of the missing home-town heart-throb. But things take a dark turn as Susie digs out the truth and soon finds herself in over her head.

Director: Sophie Kargman
Producer: Adam Mirels, Robert Mirels
Screenwriter: William Day Frank, Sophie Kargman
Distributor: Vertical
Production Co: 141 Entertainment, Magnetic Labs
Genre: Comedy, Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 28, 2023, Limited
Runtime: 1h 45m