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239 reactions from 4 sources (Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon, TMDB reviews) · newest Nov 2, 2026 · last updated Nov 3, 2026 · How this works
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| Bluesky * | 69 | 29 | 91 |
| Lemmy * | 3 | 2 | 19 |
| Mastodon * | 2 | 10 | 8 |
| TMDB reviews * | 3 | 2 | 1 |
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Licorice Pizza is a 2021 drama comedy romance film, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, starring Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman and Sean Penn.
- 191 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Lemmy, Mastodon, TMDB reviews
- posts span Dec 20, 2021 to Nov 2, 2026
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60 of 239 · most liked firstI wouldn't have handed most of these Best Picture, but I am just a girl, standing in front of an Academy, asking them to reconsider giving CODA the Best Picture prize over Power of the Dog, Drive My Car, Dune, West Side Story, and Licorice Pizza! Still a nice little movie, though! I'll give it that!
neutral · AI labelView post →Perhaps Palmer Luckey isn’t a misogynist like you assume but simply a fan of the Paul Thomas Anderson film Licorice Pizza
neutral · AI labelView post →Trying to not let myself get TOO overhyped for One Battle After Another given Licorice Pizza is one of the most overrated films of the decade... but even the PTA skeptics are loving OBAA (and it's gonna piss off the far right so bad) so what the hell, I'll get hyped! variety.com/2025/film/re...
negative · AI labelView post →People got so mad at Licorice Pizza and I gotta say it’s impressive that he followed that up, intentionally or not, with a movie that is like that but worse. Just an inescapable vortex for people to have annoying opinions.
negative · AI labelView post →Classic Movies That Need A 4K Release. Classic Movies That Need A 4K Release ===================================== Chris Bumbray * * * * * So many classic movies are being released in 4K, yet a lot of essential titles are MIA, even if many feel tailor-made for the format.  Here at JoBlo, [we love physical media](https://www.joblo.com/is-physical-media-getting-too-expensive/) -- ESPECIALLY 4K discs.…
neutral · AI labelView post →Now available to watch on BBC iPlayer, Paul Thomas Anderson's mesmerisingly lovely Licorice Pizza. Not his best film, perhaps, but my favourite. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
positive · AI labelView post →A big chunk of negative reviews of Licorice Pizza arent even about the age gap but millenials chafing at the idea of the boy in that movie being allowed to exist.
neutral · AI labelView post →okay listen: i was NOT inspired by the trailers, generally the existence of Sean Penn in a film makes me run for the hills and tho i love PTA really didn’t like Licorice Pizza. so my expectations were low . but this move was a banger!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
positive · AI labelView post →Stephen King adaptation The Long Walk adds nine to cast including Mark Hamill and Judy Greer. > Lionsgate has begun production on The Long Walk, an adaptation of Stephen King’s 1979 novel which will be directed by The Hunger Games‘ Francis Lawrence, and the film has added seven young actors to its ensemble cast along with veterans Mark Hamill (Star Wars) and Judy Greer (Jurassic World). > > Featuring in the film will be Garrett Wareing (Ransom Canyon), Tut Nyuot (The Witcher: Blood Origin),…
neutral · AI labelView post →#DavidsMonthOfMusic #MusicChallenge 27 🐯 from a movie i saw at the cinema "Lisa, Listen to Me" (1971), Blood, Sweat & Tears 🎶🪇 from the "Licorice Pizza" soundtrack (2021) youtu.be/AzqqRkyPREo?...
neutral · AI labelView post →I forget what the movie was but one of the trailers before it was Licorice Pizza and when Alana Haim says “do you wanna see my boobs?” a tween girl went “Ew.” at conversational volume and everyone laughed
neutral · AI labelView post →I’m seven minutes into my first watch of LICORICE PIZZA and oh my god this is already my favorite movie
positive · AI labelView post →Licorice Pizza is on BBC2 at Midnight. On the off chance you haven't seen it I think it's Andersons most warmhearted film since Boogie Nights. The kind of film that gives romantic comedy a good name. Plus I've never seen a film that won me over so convincingly just with an opening sequence.
positive · AI labelView post →I haven't like a single PTA movie since Boogie Nights, but then Licorice Pizza was unexpectedly one of my favorite movies of the year and maybe one of my favorites of all time so I dunno, count me mildly excited about his new off-brand Pynchon one
positive · AI labelView post →#NowWatching LICORICE PIZZA (2021). Director: Paul Thomas Anderson. Alana Haim, Cooper Hoffman. Although Anderson has made some of my faves, this sporadically amusing coming-of-age story only showed flashes of brilliance for me. First rewatch since theater. #filmsky 📽
neutral · AI labelView post →Watching Licorice Pizza again reminds me of when I saw it for the first time and thought it was gonna end by pulling out and revealing the film’s own set, so it’d be about how performance and art imitate life and vice versa, and all these were film storylines…and then it didn’t.
neutral · AI labelView post →A hungry guy who's in charge of a repertory movie theater's programming scheduling a double feature of Peppermint Soda and Licorice Pizza
neutral · AI labelView post →#LastFourWatched Strong movie week. I know some people hated Licorice Pizza but something about it clicked with me despite how toxic everyone was in it. Also (not pictured), I watched Peppermint with Jennifer Garner and that was not good. Sadly she couldn’t save that movie.
positive · AI labelView post →The only Paul Thomas Anderson movie that I want a sequel to is LICORICE PIZZA (2021). PTA should treat it like Linklater's "Before" series and catch up with Alana and Gary as their lives go on thru the 80s and 90s
neutral · AI labelView post →Ok, Friday movie draft, 2020-present. One in each category. I’m taking Drama: Conclave Horror: Sinners Comedy: Barbie Romance: Licorice Pizza Action/Adv: Top Gun Maverick Animated: Wolfwalkers Sci-fi/Fantasy: Dune Part Two Oscar Winner: Oppenheimer
neutral · AI labelView post →Licorice Pizza is the only other PTA movie I've seen. I remember Alana Haim being pretty good in it but the only other thing I rememeber is that everyone was kinda oily. I was drunk when I watched it though so the fact that I don't remember much about it doesn't necessarily speak to its quality.
neutral · AI labelView post →Confession that I am afraid of becoming the sole person in a theater who is Not Getting the PTA Movie (which happened with Licorice Pizza, but not with Phantom Thread).
neutral · AI labelView post →LICORICE PIZZA is a movie about what happens in America when statutory rape laws aren't enforced
neutral · AI labelView post →Back on the LICORICE PIZZA train and oh my G-d this movie is so totally my shit
positive · AI labelView post →March Madness 2025 Elite Eight Stats Thread! ** Paul Thomas Anderson ** 1996 - 2021* (25 years+) (*new film in 2025) # of films: 9 Total runtime: 21h Average length: 2h19m Check Clear: There Will Be Blood (4.5) Check Bounce: Licorice Pizza (3.5)
neutral · AI labelView post →Okay, so I’m one of the only people who doesn’t think ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER is an instant masterpiece or the film we need right now or PTA’s best. It’s LICORICE PIZZA all over again. I understand the hype. I just disagree with it.
negative · AI labelView post →Caught up with Sean Baker’s Anora. “ I don’t have instagram. I’m an adult man” is my favourite movie exasperation since Alana Haim’s “Fuck off, Teenagers!” in Licorice Pizza.
neutral · AI labelView post →It is the one in Westwood by the movie theaters I spent the rest of the night trying to get out of after Licorice Pizza. It was almost as long to leave that fucking place as a PAUL THOMAS ANDERSON MOVIE RUNTIME
neutral · AI labelView post →But meanwhile we are rewatching Licorice Pizza on I Player. Such a lovely warm and witty film. And seamless too. And Anderson chooses music better than anyone.
positive · AI labelView post →Harriet Sansom Harris - 📽️ Phantom Thread (Paul Thomas Anderson, 2017) The drunk and insecure Barbara Rose is a welcome, tragicomic digression in a film with a small core cast. Harris (who also has an unforgettable scene in PTA’s follow-up Licorice Pizza) annihilates her disastrous wedding night.
neutral · AI labelView post →Going out to see a late New Year's Eve showing of Licorice Pizza as my first theater movie after the start of the pandemic, having the whole theater to myself, and walking out of the theater into the new year
positive · AI labelView post →THE PIT (1981): What if you mashed up a 1950s monster movie with, uh, LICORICE PIZZA? I dunno. I really didn’t enjoy this one.
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight's movie is Licorice Pizza (2021) 🍿
neutral · AI labelView post →If there's a better film in the last 25 years than 'Licorice Pizza' it's likely to be directed by Paul Thomas Anderson (There Will Be Blood, Punch-Drunk Love, Boogie Nights, The Master, Magnolia). Whichever one I watch is my immediate favourite.
positive · AI labelView post →I was watching a terrible movie (for a thing I’m working on) on my laptop and could see the TV in our living room where my kid & her friends were watching Licorice Pizza and I felt like I was living the meme
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy Birthday to American musician Alana Haim (1991) of pop-rock band Haim, along with her 2 sisters, Este and Danielle. She’s been nominated for five Grammy Awards. She was also in the film, Licorice Pizza, 🍕 and nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Actress! #HAIM youtu.be/tkwCq_XZzbM?...
neutral · AI labelView post →This might seem like an arbitrary comparison, but it makes sense to me. Rewatching some parts of BOOGIE NIGHTS recently, I was struck by how shallow some of it seemed to me. Whereas a recent rewatch of LICORICE PIZZA delighted me non-stop. decider.com/2025/09/26/p...
positive · AI labelView post →Licorice Pizza was a cracking film 🍿
positive · AI labelView post →PTA has never made a bad movie Except Licorice Pizza That shit is worse than licorice on a pizza
negative · AI labelView post →As with Oppenheimer in 2024, I get to one of 2025's big films—One Battle After Another—and I find it pretty meh. Fun, sometimes funny, but pretty mid action movie overall with some good performances. Certainly not worth the hype. At least better than Licorice Pizza, but that bar was *low* af.
negative · AI labelView post →The Bee Gees also sang To Love Somebody on this same episode of The Ed Sullivan Show. I hold out hope tape exists.🤞 Trivia: This episode featured Lucille Ball and the cast of Yours, Mine and Ours -- and was a plot detail in the movie, Licorice Pizza.
neutral · AI labelView post →Re-watching Licorice Pizza...this movie is hilarious 😂
positive · AI labelView post →Tonight we are having a PTA meeting. Join us at 8pm ET on Pluto TV Spotlight for a Paul Thomas Anderson movie marathon starting with LICORICE PIZZA: pluto.tv/us/live-tv/5...
neutral · AI labelView post →Always the season for movie releases. Any best performances in this group? You decide at www.sassawards.com The Mosquito Coast - 1986 The Ice Storm - 1997 Bad Santa - 2003 The King's Speech - 2010 Licorice Pizza - 2021 #sassawards #sassaward #filmsky #moviesky
neutral · AI labelView post →I remember it well. And I lived in Los Angeles then, so it was pretty intense. You could only fill up on certain days based on your license plate. Lines extended for a mile down the street. teh film "Licorice Pizza" captures a bit of it. Now I drive an EV, so thank god I won't have to do it again.
neutral · AI labelView post →...man, i want to watch it again. has PTA made a more purely _enjoyable_ movie? Maybe Licorice Pizza. (Boogie Nights is pure delight until the fall.)
positive · AI labelView post →Licorice Pizza will forever be known as the movie that finally pushed me over the edge and made me decide to join letterboxd. also, Alana Haim movie count: 1. god damn that girl can act
positive · AI labelView post →The poorly thought out ADVENT CALENDAR OF FILM RECOMMENDATIONS continues. Day Nineteen: Licorice Pizza, one of the best films of 2021. Currently available on @bbciplayer.bsky.social for 20 more days.
positive · AI labelView post →Finally watching LICORICE PIZZA, and while I think the bloom is off the rose for me with PTA, Alana Haim is very, *very* good in it. (bonus points for casting her real-life sisters as her movie sister)
neutral · AI labelView post →I've been a PTA fan right out of the gate and Licorice Pizza is my favorite film of his, I love it without qualification.
positive · AI labelView post →Fav Paul Thomas Anderson movie? Punch Drunk Love Licorice Pizza Phantom Thread There Will Be Blood Magnolia Almost all of them
neutral · AI labelView post →Hard Eight does have a bit of a 'first film' vibe to it but is actually a pretty good little indie movie. I think Punch Drunk Love is a masterpiece. But, full disclosure, I think Phantom Thread is cold and not engaging, There Will Be Blood a bit meh, and Licorice Pizza is his worst film.
negative · AI labelView post →Favorite film from every decade: 20s Metropolis 30s Modern Times 40s The Best Years Of Our Lives 50s Marty 60s Playtime 70s Alien 80s Do The Right Thing 90s Schindler's List 00s No Country For Old Men 10s Uncut Gems 20s Licorice Pizza Hardest decades to choose 1 film: 80s, 00s
positive · AI labelView post →It hit me What is Licorice Pizza About when Alana has a quick moment with Matthew near the end of the film: our desire to be wanted by others and how it makes us feel when we get that attention - excited, validated, maybe a little blushingly annoyed, and how we feel when that attention goes
neutral · AI labelView post →Had it too good with Licorice Pizza. First movie I saw projected on 70mm, went in thinking it would be the greatest movie ever made, and it was. Nothing new is going to meet my my lofty expectations like that
positive · AI labelView post →Jan 8 : David Bowie song in a film #Bales2025FilmChallenge #FilmSky #MovieSky 📽️ 🎬 Licorice Pizza (2021) 🎶 Life on Mars 🎶 www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTaK...
neutral · AI labelView post →Licorice Pizza (2021) Dir. Paul Thomas Anderson Released in theaters 3 years ago today. #filmsky #movie #movie #film #films
neutral · AI labelView post →It's great that Licorice Pizza is on Tubi, but that's probably not the right mood for tonight. The movie on Tubi that I've rated 5 stars and will meet the mood of the timeline tonight is Miracle Mile
neutral · AI labelView post →He is phenomenal in Nightmare Alley, and there are A LOT of stars who would NEVER play a role like that. Same is true of Licorice Pizza (though I like that movie far less). I’m 100% with you on that. Great call.
negative · AI labelView post →The movie *Licorice Pizza*.
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