‘Licorice Pizza’ review: Philip Seymour Hoffman’s son stars in 2021’s best movie

nypost.com:

died in 2014.What we never could have imagined, though, is that Cooper’s freshman performance (he’s so green, his IMDB page doesn’t have a photo yet) would be one of the best of the year in what is easily the best film of 2021, Paul Thomas Anderson’s brilliant “Licorice Pizza.” This wonderful kid should be in the Oscar race, but we’re too predictably infatuated with big names.

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 sentimental and knock-down, drag out funny.