“Licorice Pizza” (**1/2 out of four) was an intermittently engaging comic love story set in 1973 California in which two young people (Alana Haim and Cooper Hoffman) fall in love and try to navigate through their differences in families and backgrounds and through their different career paths in life. Unusually lighthearted and breezy effort from writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson features lovingly authentic ’70’s detail and decor and has some laughs but it starts to meander in its second half especially when you start to realize film doesn’t have all that much plot. A nice and bright ending helps end film with a smile and terrific performances from Hoffman and (especially) Haim make this overall worth watching.