Film Reviews: Cooper Hoffman and Alana Haim debut brilliantly in Licorice Pizza

"it might prove something of an acquired taste for some: the movie isn’t just set in the 70s, but employs the aesthetic that prevailed at the time"

Cooper Hoffman and Alana Haim in Licorice Pizza

★★★★☆

Gary Goetzman has enjoyed a storied career as a Hollywood producer, but it’s his early years, when he combined a career as a child actor with that of a waterbed salesman, that forms the basis for Licorice Pizza (15A), which is written and directed by his friend Paul Thomas Anderson.