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He’s a charming old soul who acts in tiny film roles and uses the money to start weird side businesses. Hoffman plays Gary Valentine, a 15-year-old Cyrano de Bergerac/Harold Hill/Doogie Howser mix in 1973 California.
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He gives a teen turn on par with Tom Cruise in “Risky Business” or Matthew Broderick in “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off,” but - and I recognize the weight of this comment - goes much deeper than they did as young men. The “Boogie Nights” director, who is deathly allergic to making bad films, has found the perfect blend of role and actor with Hoffman. The moment the credits rolled I wanted to rewind and watch it again. The film is a highlight reel of fantastic acting. It’s a totally unique and endlessly surprising coming-of-age tale that is carefully sentimental and knock-down, drag out funny. “Licorice Pizza” is a movie you will cherish for a long time after the lights come up.
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This wonderful kid should be in the Oscar race, but we’re too predictably infatuated with big names. 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.” His father, an Oscar-winning genius, died in 2014. It was always going to be an emotional experience watching the late Philip Seymour Hoffman’s son Cooper Hoffman make his acting debut. Rated R (language, sexual material and some drug use).