shaggy dog story
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“Licorice Pizza”: Paul Thomas Anderson’s shaggy-dog story of self-discovery in ’70s San Fernando Valley feels to me like a loose, easy-breathing culmination for Anderson, a virtuoso filmmaker here at his most tender and organic.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 8, 2021
I wouldn’t have dared say that out loud, but even then, I think, I somehow sensed that this was a climax that wouldn’t provide much resolution, a space-age shaggy-dog story.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 18, 2019
As anti-comedy, the shaggy-dog story congratulates the audience for being in on the absence of a joke.
From New York Times • Aug. 30, 2018
But in some other crucial respects, Mr Anderson’s shaggy-dog story is lagging behind the pack.
From Economist • Feb. 22, 2018
You heard that big, long shaggy-dog story about exactly what happened and where everybody was supposed to have been at the time.
From Murder in the Gunroom by Piper, H. Beam
