Licorice Pizza is the new movie from director Paul Thomas Anderson which is picking up critical praise and controversy in equal measure. Reactions of viewers coming out of screenings have been mixed.

Let’s fix that. “Licorice Pizza” is a movie you will cherish for a long time after the lights come up. It’s a totally unique and endlessly surprising coming-of-age tale that is carefully ...

As ever with Paul Thomas Anderson’s movies, the soundtrack to ‘Licorice Pizza’, the new ... from Los Angeles jazz group Chico Hamilton Quartet, notable for having a cello as its lead instrument.

The comic chase that ensues when they run afoul of this paranoid, coked-up horndog is as close as the movie gets to real suspense. Licorice Pizza’s structure is shaggy and organic. Though the ...

Per Deadline, MGM and Focus Features dropped the full-length Licorice Pizza trailer today. It’s the first movie from the Oscar-nominated director since The Phantom Thread in 2017. And it looks a ...

These moments, along with all the inside jokes, threaten to give “Licorice Pizza” an obnoxious air of you-had-to-be-there smugness; like the new Spider-Man and Matrix movies, this is a film of ...

Right: Zendaya in "Dune." Top: Sean Penn and Alana Haim in "Licorice Pizza," bottom: Kristen Wiig and Annie Mumolo in "Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar." Right: Warner Bros./Everett Collection.

It costs $6 to rent from services like Amazon Prime Video and Vudu, but you can also purchase the movie for $15. Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, "Licorice Pizza" is a coming-of-age story set in ...

(Which usually leads me to ask if they’ve seen Hard Eight, since that’s the only Paul Thomas Anderson movie not excluded, and the answer is almost always, “I haven’t seen it.”) Licorice ...

The best example of Chekhov’s gun I’ve seen in a while is in Paul Thomas Anderson’s new film, “Licorice Pizza.” The movie, set in the filmmaker’s native San Fernando Valley ...

Two scenes, which make up a sliver of Licorice Pizza‘s 133-minute runtime ... Americans decrying any awards recognition for the movie. The scenes do not appear to be integral to advancing ...