Licorice Pizza (2021)
TOMATOMETER
AUDIENCE SCORE
Critic Consensus: Licorice Pizza finds Paul Thomas Anderson shifting into a surprisingly comfortable gear -- and getting potentially star-making performances out of his fresh-faced leads.
Licorice Pizza Videos
Licorice Pizza Photos
Movie Info
Watch it now
Cast
Critic Reviews for Licorice Pizza
All Critics (261) | Top Critics (66) | Fresh (238) | Rotten (23)
The two leads, musician Alana Haim and Cooper Hoffman, each in their feature film debut, are remarkable.
Licorice Pizza takes an arm's-length embrace of nostalgia. Anderson doesn't turn a blind eye to reality-he heightens it, weighting it with meaning, reflecting the romance of hindsight and adolescent abandon.
One thing I really like about this movie is the way it's structured, because it's meandering and it's loose [but] all these little moments, they feel like stories and anecdotes and memories that have been told and recounted many times.
Anderson and Haim, with her sharp-elbowed and funny yet soulful performance, capture the flailing, directionless condition of being a woman in her mid-20s.
This is a film carried by two people who've basically never acted before, but Anderson somehow knew that they could, and neither hits a false note in over two hours. It's a star-crossed love story à la Harold and Maude minus the tragedy.
This film - which is as sprawling as the Valley it tries to capture - will command a second (and third) watch.
Audience Reviews
There are no featured reviews for Licorice Pizza at this time.
Licorice Pizza Quotes
There are no approved quotes yet for this movie.