Review: 'Licorice Pizza' one of the best movies of the year

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Our film reviewer Peter Travers says that the young stars of “Licorice Pizza,” Alana Haim and Cooper Hoffman 'light up the screen. They’re to die for.'

Cooper Hoffman stars in a scene from the 2021 film,"Licorice Pizza," directed by Paul Thomas Anderson.

“Licorice Pizza” refers to a now-defunct chain of record stores in LA’s San Fernando Valley in the 1970s, where Anderson grew up and the story is set. But the director, known as PTA by film junkies, never mentions the franchise. Maybe it’s better to see licorice and pizza as two things that don’t go together until they do in this love mismatch made in heaven.The 2021 film,"Licorice Pizza," directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, stars Alana Haim and Cooper Hoffman.

She’s referring to Streisand, which cues the entrance of Bradley Cooper—off-the-charts hilarious as Jon Peters, the womanizing, rageaholic hairdresser who’s dating the legend and hires Gary and Alana to install a waterbed to get some waves going in his sex life with Barbra.

 

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Wait, not sure if this is going to go over well with the political left. Hoffman plays a younger teenager. He's 18. What about all the other 15 yr olds out there who may be offended? Hollywood needs to answer for this!

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