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It is, indeed, Anderson’s happiest creation to date-blithe, easy-breathing, and expansive. Such speed, however, sprang from desperation, whereas “Licorice Pizza” is bent upon the pursuit of happiness. Remember the explosive scene in “The Master” (2015), when Joaquin Phoenix burst through a door and set off across a plowed and misty field, at full tilt, with the camera hurrying to keep up.

Wait for the meet and greet.Īnderson’s characters have taken to their heels before. And, at the climax, they both run-Alana going from right to left across the screen, and Gary going in the other direction, equal and opposite. The hero of “Licorice Pizza,” Gary Valentine (Cooper Hoffman), races toward a gas station, past a line of idling vehicles, to the sound of David Bowie’s “Life on Mars?” For her part, the heroine, Alana Kane (Alana Haim), sprints to a police station, after Gary has been inexplicably arrested. Think of Shirley MacLaine, haring along at the end of “The Apartment” (1960), with her head thrown back, then imagine a whole film in which people dash around with the same urgency, even when they have nowhere special to go. The running time of the new Paul Thomas Anderson movie, “Licorice Pizza,” is a hundred and thirty-three minutes, and much of that time is occupied with running.