Licorice Pizza
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Paul Thomas Anderson's follow-up to Phantom Thread follows a high school student—and successful child actor—in 1970s San Fernando Valley. Stars Cooper Hoffman (Philip Seymour Hoffman's son), Alana Haim (of the band Haim), Bradley Cooper (as Hollywood hairdresser/producer Jon Peters), Sean Penn, Benny Safdie and Tom Waits.
2022Rating: M, Coarse language and sexual references134 minsUSA
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Licorice Pizza | Reviews
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The Telegraph
Irresistibly hard to pin down: you'd have to go back around 50 years... to find another that runs on a similar kind of woozy clockwork.
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RogerEbert.com
An achingly romantic tone returns by the end, as well as the sensation that... we just watched the best movie of the year.
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Los Angeles Times
(Licorice Pizza) feels more concrete, more achingly, tangibly real, than just about any American movie this year.
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Time Magazine
Licorice Pizza feels pleased with how casual and effortless it is, which is the exact opposite of being casual and effortless.
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Slant Magazine
It's the hints of danger... that lend the film its sneaky depth of feeling.
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ABC
Newbies Alana Haim and Cooper Hoffman light up the screen in one of the very best movies of the year.
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Wall Street Journal
If... Licorice Pizza doesn't make you happy, the trouble may be that you're clinically depressed, anhedonic or don't care for movies in general.
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USA Today
An entertaining movie that, like American Graffiti and Fast Times at Ridgemont High before it, captures youth in hilarious and poignant ways.
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Entertainment Weekly
A tender, funny ramble forged in all the hope and absurdity of adolescence...
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Licorice Pizza | News & Opinion
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Let’s boogie with Paul Thomas Anderson: the Licorice Pizza director’s top musical moments
The sounds of the 70s are back in PTA’s Licorice Pizza—but don’t forget his previous, just-as-groovy needle-drops.
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From Cher to Lady Gaga and Alana Haim: great female musicians who rock the big screen
Licorice Pizza’s star isn’t the first woman in music to bring her stage bravado boldly into a big-screen role.
