Paul Thomas Anderson’s winsome “Licorice Pizza” is one of 10 films nominated for this year's Academy Award for Best Picture. Here's where to watch it, what our critic had to say and what to watch next.
In addition to its Best Picture nod, "Licorice Pizza" is up for two of the other biggest awards of the night: Best Director and Best Original Screenplay, both for Paul Thomas Anderson."You’re not supposed to ask a girl how old she is," Alana informs Gary at the outset of "Licorice Pizza," Paul Thomas Anderson’s warmly cinematic cruise through the San Fernando Valley of 1973.
When she and Gary meet on school picture day, the not-quite-16-year-old charms and irritates her in equal measure. Gary thinks he’s met the woman of his dreams, and while the movie does have a dreamy flow, Alana instead becomes an odd cross between his babysitter and his gal Friday.
Throughout these mostly-killer, hardly-any-filler episodes, Anderson and his beyond-charming lead actors suffuse "Licorice Pizza" with different strains of longing. For Gary, it’s the uncomplicated desire for Alana, while his playful but short-fused beloved pines for something more elusive: a sign of what she’s meant to do in a grown-up world. The dynamic between the two lead characters is strange but powerful, like magnets that keep swapping polarities at unexpected intervals.
Anderson has made his sweetest and most relaxed movie without sacrificing his sense of buzzing urgency, which especially radiates from the young-love imagery: brushing fingers, knocked-together knees and bodies running heedlessly toward each other. What a lovely, funny mood trip.Unless you’re willing to cough up the dough for a VOD rental , you can’t stream "Licorice Pizza" just yet.
Jesse Hassenger is a writer, editor, and film critic based in Brooklyn, New York. His reviews and essays have appeared in The A.V. Club, Polygon, Paste Magazine, The Week, and Decider, among others. He also co-hosts the horror podcast The New Flesh, sometimes writes fiction, and enjoys rock and roll. His tweets about the Brine King from Aquaman appear at @rockmarooned.
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