
Movies that feel like Licorice Pizza (2021)
If you loved Licorice Pizza, the closest films we have are Punch-Drunk Love (2002), Love, Simon (2018) and Cousins (2019). All three share Licorice Pizza's contemplative and witty feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 11 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.
If Licorice Pizza hit the spot, these will too

Paul Thomas Anderson directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

Common ground in both: high school and growing up

Both keep coming back to the same thing: growing up

Contemplative and witty in the same breath

Both land play and romance at once
The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Both are built on the same subject: teenage love
The difference: Made in the 1990s, in a different era of the craft

The same mix in both: tenderness, then wistfulness

Contemplative drama in both cases

Witty comedy, and it commits to that

One thread runs through both: young love
The difference: None of the wit Licorice Pizza is built on

Common ground: high school

Romance with a pulse of play, in both cases
The difference: Missing the stillness of Licorice Pizza
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