"[Licorice Pizza] is irresistibly hard to pin down: you'd have to go back around 50 years, to the likes of Hal Ashby's Shampoo or Peter Bogdanovich's The Last Picture Show, to find another that runs on a similar kind of woozy clockwork."
★★★★★ Robbie Collin, Daily Telegraph

"Paul Thomas Anderson's sunniest movie yet, this San Fernando Valley palimpsest is so buoyant and bubbly, it practically floats off the screen."
★★★★★ Philip De Semlyen, Time Out

"A tender, funny ramble forged in all the hope and absurdity of adolescence, one wild poly-blend rumpus at a time."
★★★★★ Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly

"There are two courtships unfolding in Licorice Pizza, and only one of them is happening on the screen. The other is between us and the movie. Guess who ends up punch-drunk and smitten?"
David Fear, Rolling Stone