Review of Licorice Pizza (2021) by Deviltherobot — 10 Jan 2022
The movie is well acted and shot, but is bloated. This did not need to be 133 minutes. The main problem is the elephant in the room which is the relationship that happens between the 25 year old woman and 15 year old boy (kid).
This was not really shown in trailers and was weird to see and took me out of the movie. PTA says the relationship is not sexual but the 25 year old shows her boobs, sensually hugs, and kisses the kid.
The ending frankly turned an 8/10-8.5/10 movie into a 7/10. Her saying she loves him and kissing him? So weird. And it invalidates the best scene in the movie (the truck scene). Honestly if the genders were swapped, there wouldn't be this pretentious hand waiving about the age and how people "don't get it".
People wouldn't defend it or romanticize it.
This review of Licorice Pizza (2021) was written by Deviltherobot on 10 January 2022.
Licorice Pizza has generally received positive reviews.
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