Licorice Pizza

Started out okay and then just dragged on. I was forcing myself to watch it and then about half way just quit altogether.

Horrible. Where do I start? No plot. Nothing that happens connects with anything that follows. Pure meandering. Unsympathetic characters. Smug and self-conscious. I only made it to the end because I was with other people and couldn't walk out.

This story made no sense to me. I get that it was about a juxtaposition - between the experienced and the naive, the young and the old. It just didn't land well for me.

Meh. It's pointless, meandering and only occasionally funny.

Director Paul Thomas Anderson may have added a level to his craft through dusted lenses capturing a supposedly nostalgic form without much originality around the chemistry and took in life's lack of direction bit literally, he boasted in fresh showcases for its pair's dynamically exceptional breakthroughs, generationally headlined, alongside an impressive ensemble. (B)

Wonderfully loose and free of a tight constraining plot. What PTA does here is capture a feeling, a mood, and the past in ways that few movies do.

A film that makes perfect sense. Its appeal is generational and its theme, though a common story, follows a unique tale where first loves come first. No matter your age, this film's boyish charm and girlish revolt will haunt you with a homesickness for the scenes of your childhood; a bygone era when our world was simple and easy to love.

Unwatchable. Inconsistent. Incoherent.

Generally l really like PTA movies. While a chilled movie, I just couldn't believe or connect with the main character in this one. (light spoilers). A fifteen year old who drinks Martinis, has a regular table at the local bar, dines out nightly (no real parental discipline or boundaries - his mother is even an 'employee'), launches and bank rolls new businesses multiple times, and talks like a fifty year old, all while apparently still going to school. Really. Not how l remember being fifteen.

One of the most awful movies I've ever seen. Pointless and terrible acting by the lead lady.