Licorice Pizza

It reviews better than it plays — admired more than it is enjoyed.

• “The film rides upon the shoulders of first-timers Haim (Anderson has directed several of her band’s videos) and Hoffman (son of frequent Anderson collaborator, the late Philip Seymour Hoffman), and they’re both thoroughly engaging.”

  Alonso Duralde, TheWrap · 100

• “In Licorice Pizza, time isn’t something that keeps people apart — it’s the only thing that allows them to find each other in the first place. And this euphoric movie doesn’t waste a minute of it.”

  David Ehrlich, IndieWire · 100

• “It’s such a delectable film: I’ll be cutting myself another slice very soon.”

  Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian · 100

• “In a world of algorithmically sorted content, Anderson’s ninth film, and his first since 2017’s Phantom Thread, is irresistibly hard to pin down: you’d have to go back around 50 years, to the likes of Hal Ashby’s Shampoo or Peter Bogdanovich’s The Last Picture Show, to find another that runs on a similar kind of woozy clockwork.”

  Robbie Collin, The Telegraph · 100

• “Licorice Pizza delivers a piping-hot, jumbo slice-of-life look at how it felt to grow up on the fringes of the film industry circa 1973.”

  Peter Debruge, Variety · 100