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By David Sims (534) for The Atlantic (1,046) on 26 Nov 2021

Licorice Pizza is an antic comedy about Alana and Gary tooling around the Valley, but it’s also a bittersweet reminiscence about how difficult…

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By Alissa Wilkinson (499) for Vox (725) on 26 Nov 2021

The film, which is structured as a series of set pieces that Alana and Gary stumble into and out of, is far too strange and specific and sometimes…

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By Anthony Lane (1,079) for The New Yorker (1,837) on 26 Nov 2021

It is, indeed, Anderson’s happiest creation to date—blithe, easy-breathing, and expansive…

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By Alison Willmore (681) for New York Magazine (Vulture) (3,519) on 26 Nov 2021

Licorice Pizza — a movie as exasperating as it is delightful — could be described as an exploration of the unstable ground where Alana’s…

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By Manohla Dargis (1,909) for The New York Times (9,847) on 26 Nov 2021

A shaggy, fitfully brilliant romp from Paul Thomas Anderson…

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By Johnny Oleksinski (478) for New York Post (6,650) on 25 Nov 2021

It was always going to be an emotional experience watching the late Philip Seymour Hoffman’s son Cooper Hoffman make his acting debut…

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By Leah Greenblatt (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 25 Nov 2021

Licorice (the title, never once mentioned or explained, remains a happy non sequitur) is a love letter to an era, and more than that a feeling…

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By Brian Truitt (541) for USA Today (4,117) on 25 Nov 2021

With Licorice Pizza, Anderson delivers a warm tasty slice of adolescence as well as two fresh-faced youngsters that will satisfy cinephiles…

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By Christy Lemire (1,262) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 24 Nov 2021

Paul Thomas Anderson’s golden, shimmering vision of the 1970s San Fernando Valley in Licorice Pizza is so dreamy, so full of possibility,…

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By Jake Coyle (526) for The Associated Press (882) on 24 Nov 2021

It’s the performances of Haim and Hoffman that most lend “Licorice Pizza” its authenticity…

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By Joe Morgenstern (2,395) for Wall Street Journal (3,071) on 24 Nov 2021

[Mr. Anderson's] screenplay soars above and beyond literal references by creating the oddest power couple you’ve ever seen…

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By David Fear (910) for Rolling Stone (4,035) on 24 Nov 2021

Anderson may be concocting his own personal flashback to a funkier age of innocence, but he lets these two make it their own double-act as…

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By Peter Travers (3,602) for ABC News (186) on 24 Nov 2021

Darkness stays on the edges of Hollywood town in Paul Thomas Anderson’s screwball comedy explosion about the serious business of first love…

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By Siddhant Adlakha (174) for Observer (1,042) on 24 Nov 2021

Licorice Pizza is the moment between the leap and the impact—the feeling of weightlessness even as you plummet…

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By Stephanie Zacharek (2,333) for Time (1,811) on 24 Nov 2021

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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By Tara Bennett (62) for IGN (1,013) on 24 Nov 2021

What Anderson doesn’t give us is the inner lives of anyone in the film…

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By Ryan Swen (11) for The Film Stage (3,162) on 23 Nov 2021

Hoffman and Haim are quite natural and relaxed in the way they carry themselves, the former filled with an awkward confidence and the latter…

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By Dana Stevens (1,435) for Slate (2,081) on 23 Nov 2021

In large part thanks to its fresh-faced stars, the charming Hoffman and the wildly charismatic Haim, I’m hard pressed to think of a recent…

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By Carson Lund (88) for Slant Magazine (8,298) on 20 Nov 2021

It’s the hints of danger, employed like ghost notes in a shuffling rhythm, that lend the film its sneaky depth of feeling…

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By Roger Moore (6,008) for Movie Nation (3,875) on 19 Nov 2021

If it’s not one of Anderson’s best, “the good parts” stand out as some of the most endearing moments the movies have given us this year…

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