The Synopsis
Tick, Tick ... Boom!
The film follows Jon (Andrew Garfield), a young theater composer who’s waiting tables at a New York City diner in 1990 while writing what he hopes will be the next great American musical. Days before he’s due to showcase his work in a make-or-break performance, Jon is feeling the pressure from everywhere: from his girlfriend Susan, who dreams of an artistic life beyond New York City; from his friend Michael, who has moved on from his dream to a life of financial security; amidst an artistic community being ravaged by the AIDS epidemic. With the clock ticking, Jon is at a crossroads and faces the question everyone must reckon with: What are we meant to do with the time we have?
Camerawork
“A sublime dance
of light and dark”
They say
“OUR MINDS CAN GO
TO VERY DARK PLACES”
TESTIMONIALS
WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT THE FILM
"...Garfield... plays Jack in a pitch-perfect performance..."
"...Mr. Garfield, last seen in last year’s “Lions for Lambs,” plays Jack in a pitch-perfect performance as a guy whose needs are adult and childlike at once. He’s excited by the thought of finally going to bed with a girl but turns out to be more interested in her emotional approval..."
"...Garfield embodies his protagonist with a tremulousness..."
"...Garfield embodies his protagonist with a tremulousness that evokes guilt, shame, fear, and alienation from the culture into which he’s now been thrust, his reticent mannerisms bestowing Jack with a fragility that’s most endearing during intimate moments with Michelle..."
"...Garfield's abundant talent is on display..."
"...Even with Redford, Cruise and Streep on the marquee, "Lions for Lambs" was forgettable - save for the performance of Andrew Garfield as a spoiled rich kid. Garfield's abundant talent is on display again as the title character in "Boy A."... (he) projects an innocence unusual for an ex-con. His inherent sweetness makes him easy to like..."
"...Garfield ...remains enigmatic to the end..."
"... young Brit actor Garfield is convincing as an unengaged SoCal student, ... his character remains enigmatic to the end...."
"...surprising... newcomer Andrew Garfield matches Redford..."
"...surprising is how well newcomer Andrew Garfield matches Redford, the novice convincing as a feckless student whose surfer dude mannerisms conceal a keen mind. ..."
"...The best performance ... comes from Andrew Garfield
"...The best performance in the film comes from Andrew Garfield as the lovestruck Anton. Clearly besotted with Valentina, he is deeply jealous of Tony and gives a dazzling performance swooning between giddy excitement and crushed disappointment..."
"...Garfield is especially charming..."
"... Troyer, Cole, and Garfield - are perfectly adequate in their roles, and sometimes charming (especially Garfield)..."
"...believable sparks with the boyish Garfield..."
"...Cole, a young fashion model blessed with ethereal beauty, strikes believable sparks with the boyish Garfield (who was so good in 2007's "Boy A")..."
"... Garfield is mesmerizing... "
"... Garfield (the new Spider-Man) is mesmerizing. His scenes with Mulligan are heartbreakingly poignant...."
"Garfield...is even better as the pliable, docile Tommy.."
"...Garfield, who stood out in the first part of the “Red Riding” trilogy and is slated to be the next movie Spider-Man, is even better as the pliable, docile Tommy."
"...Garfield plays ... with marvelous expressiveness..."
"...Garfield plays his more simple-minded character with marvelous expressiveness...Mulligan and Garfield play their parts with such conviction that we get caught up in their doomed romance."
"... Andrew Garfield has the emotional fluency—the fear, the indignation..."
"...Eisenberg is extraordinary—he should get an Oscar ... and Garfield is just as good in his performance as Zuckerberg’s spurned partner and only real friend, a proxy for the audience who keeps trying to warm up to this inscrutable reptile..."
"...understated brilliance by Andrew Garfield..."
"Played with understated brilliance by Andrew Garfield, who is about to become the new webslinger in a rebooted Spider-Man franchise, Saverin is everything that Zuckerberg isn’t: a gentleman, a popular figure on campus and a ladies’ man."
"...Andrew Garfield is a fast-rising star..."
"...Garfield successfully builds Saverin into a three-dimensional character with a range of a emotions, a slightly naive kid caught up in a gold rush that is moving way too fast for him (or anyone) to keep ahead of..."
...Garfield’s Spider-Man is ... more in line with the comics than Tobey Maguire’s...
...when dressed in the ... Spider-Man suit, Garfield is playing Peter rather than a superhero alter-ego. He might have enhanced abilities, but Spider-Man is, more than anything, human, and Garfield conveys the emotional vulnerabilities behind the mask in an impressive performance that never wilts amid the CGI spectacle....
...Garfield is the cheeky, wisecracking superhero of Marvel Comic lore...
...is strongest when it’s at its quietest and most intimate. One revelatory exchange between Andrew Garfield’s Peter Parker and Sally Field as Peter’s Aunt May is so poignant, it made me want to cry. And every scene between Garfield and Emma Stone as Peter’s sharp and assured girlfriend, Gwen Stacy, leaps off the screen...
...the perfect casting of Andrew Garfield as Peter Parker...
...Garfield's gallant web-slinger may be out in the world and halfway up a building, but he clearly still has one foot in the locker room at high school. Webb's film is bold and bright and possesses charm in abundance. It swings into the future and carries the audience with it....
...Andrew Garfield gives a performance to Marvel at...
...Garfield might look absurdly young and lanky (his shape, like his jumpy movements, has an arachnid quality) but his acting has an instinctive wisdom. Even in a short scene, his expression can convey several shades of emotion before he even opens his mouth, and Emma Stone matches him with easy elan as his first love, the police chief’s daughter Gwen Stacy... Andrew Garfield – diffident and confident, polite and stubborn - makes the character his own.
...Andrew Garfield feels like the definitive Spider-Man...
...The casting is just right. As if moving back in time, Andrew Garfield is the Spidey Sean Connery, as opposed to Tobey Maguire's Roger Moore. He looks clever, physically slight yet wiry, with exactly the right hunched and passive-aggressive body language when needed...it is amazing how potent and entertaining the Spider-Man myth continues to be...
...Garfield's performance hits it out-of-the-park...
...Garfield's performance hits it out-of-the-park, with a willingness to go to deep and dark places to express Peter's inner turmoil, masking his pain with a comics-accurate, comedic approach to crime-fighting...Garfield's interpretation of Peter Parker also highlights Spider-Man's high intelligence. Maguire's Peter was a boy-genius to be sure, but with Garfield's, we see Peter more as a prodigy.
"... a brave performance, compelling to watch..."
"[Garfield's] performance has that no-brakes whiff of danger that marks out the interesting Romeos from the indifferent ones"
"Garfield concentrates his power..."
"...the play belongs to Garfield and Hoffman, as it must. Both know how to weaponize language. Both are performers of demon strength who are always on the razor’s edge of succumbing to their own “technique,” but, miraculously, don’t."
"Mr. Garfield brings searing heat"
"Mr. Garfield brings searing heat to Biff’s Oedipal confrontations with his father...He’s ...like the tormented James Dean of “Rebel Without a Cause.!
"Garfield ...supplies turbo-charged catharsis"
"Garfield plunges to the sea-floor bottom of this fractured father-son relationship and reveals unspeakable heartbreak throughout his perilous descent....an actor willing to expose those primal wounds that in real life are just too painful to reopen. "
"...Garfield excel(s) in Kushner's surreal epic.."
"...Garfield as Prior excellently combines a head-tossing, period-style camp with the desperate anguish of a man craving love in his hour of need..."
"...a magnificent Mr. Garfield..."
"...the flat-out fabulous revival of Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America"... with a top-flight cast led by Andrew Garfield and Nathan Lane in career-high performances..."
"...the performance of his career..."
"... Andrew Garfield, giving the performance of his career – greater and more consequential than Spider-Man ...Garfield begins his riveting... ascent, really"
"...an impressive turn from Garfield.."
"... a compelling drama with an impressive turn from Garfield as well as Shannon and Dern as Garfield's concerned mother..."
"...Andrew Garfield deliver(s) dynamic performance ..."
"...It’s a pleasure, to see Garfield onscreen, unencumbered ... Always good at deeply internalized anguish and barely masked vulnerability, he convincingly navigates his character through some tricky psychological transitions, maintaining sympathy and credibility..."
"...excellently played by Andrew Garfield ..."
"...This is a tough, muscular, idealistic drama that packs a mighty punch, and Shannon and Garfield are excellent..."
"...the best performance of his career..."
"... It’s a tribute to Garfield’s total commitment to the role that he never lets easy sentiment color the force of the character’s convictions..."
"...an exceptional performance from Andrew Garfield..."
"...the film has an energy which matches that of Garfield’s performance.... a rousing and optimistic movie ..."
"... Andrew Garfield is ...mesmerizing.."
"... Garfield melts into his Doss character in a performance that seems impossibly still and tranquil. He's mesmerizing ..."
"...Garfield's Most Underrated Performance..."
"...Garfield had pushed himself to physical and emotional limits, delivering an unforgettable performance in an underseen masterpiece...(he) was being called upon to voice the deepest existential anxieties of one of the greatest filmmakers of all-time ..."
"...... Garfield’s Rodrigues takes centre stage ..."
"...It’s a film about Rodrigues’ interior journey and, in a career-best performance, Garfield realises it beautifully, his rock-solid belief slowly undermined by doubt...beautifully made, staggeringly ambitious and utterly compelling"
"...Scorsese's 20-year passion project..."
"... 'Silence' in Scorsese's 20-year passion project refers to Jesuits, particularly one marvelously portrayed by Andrew Garfield, not hearing their prayers confirmed. Non-believers won't relate, but the rest might recognize some cinematic miracles ..."
"... like Hepburn and Tracy ..."
"... Garfield has always been a first-rate romantic lead... Foy and Garfield act in a continuum. He provides the spark, and her yearning fuels the fire... "
"... This movie is very special indeed ..."
"... Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy give two of the best performances of the year in director Andy Serkis' moving true story of polio victim Robin Cavendish. ..."
"... Big and bold performances ..."
"... It's a whopper of a performance from Garfield, and one that moves deftly through gradations of acceptance and hidden agonies. ..."
"... Garfield Soars in Inventive L.A. Noir ..."
"... It’s a bizarre and outrageous drama grounded in the consistency of Garfield’s astonishment at every turn. ..."
"... gung-ho performance ..."
"... the film might fall apart without Garfield’s gung-ho performance ... (he) finds a way to give Sam a depth that isn’t in the script and find compassion for him even when it isn’t deserved..."
"... Andrew Garfield is tremendous ..."
"...Nothing in the film would work if Andrew Garfield weren’t flat-out tremendous, in a lead role which requires him to shamble his way scruffily around L.A.’s Silver Lake neighbourhood..."
"...one of those rare roles ..."
"... Garfield certainly deserves credit for sinking his teeth into one of those rare roles that license an actor to turn up the volume to 11 and beyond. Nicholson, Slater, Jim Carrey, Sam Rockwell ... there’s a little of all of them here, with a convincingly feral streak of LA punk dementia ..."
"...his performance as Link is everything. .."
"Garfield has settled in nicely to a career, where he isn't afraid to take chances and his performance as Link is everything it should be: Damaged, annoying, obnoxious and desperate."
"...Andrew Garfield is a force of nature..."
"Mainstream feels like this bold and heartless statement on the social media age that is terrifyingly accurate. Andrew Garfield is a force of nature; destructive, powerful, unpredictable, and absolutely hypnotic in between."
"... a dazzling showcase.."
"... The stars outshine the movie in "The Eyes of Tammy Faye," a dazzling showcase for Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield as Tammy Faye and Jim Bakker in ... how the televangelists amassed great wealth..."
"... nothing less than sensational ..."
"Jessica Chastain delivers an Oscar-worthy performance in the title role, and Andrew Garfield is nothing less than sensational as her soft-spoken, indifferent, and cloyingly ambitious preacher husband Jim."
"...intriguing, sly and effective ..."
"...Andrew Garfield’s portrayal of the deeply complicated Jim sneaks up on you; as Jim ages, Garfield’s interpretation grows more intriguing, sly and effective...it’s an eye-opener..."
"...singling out Garfield’s performance.."
"Everyone has been singling out Garfield’s performance ... The emotional beats the movie gives him does feel like the franchise is paying penance ... it’s hard not to see the look on his face when (he) saves a falling MJ & feel ... he’s somehow dulled the pain"
"he oozes charm every moment he's on screen. "
"The arrival of Tobey Maguire and Andrew Garfield Peters was magnificently timed, bringing hope in a super dark moment. However, Garfield reminds us that he's the most talented actor to play the role; ... he oozes charm every moment he's on screen. "
"... the True Heart of No Way Home..."
"His lauded performance in No Way Home acted as a form of closure ... triggering a significant re-evaluation of (his) movies in the eyes of fans ... the biggest warm fuzzy in a project full of them, cementing Garfield’s place at the center of No Way Home’s supremely relatable heart."
"...remarkable performances..."
"What a remarkable string of performances Andrew Garfield has delivered... At 38, Garfield has solidified his standing as one of the most versatile and interesting actors of his generation."
"...a superb Andrew Garfield ..."
"True-crime thrillers rarely hit as hard as this streaming series that stars a superb Andrew Garfield as a Mormon detective investigating a double murder ... Believe this: It will take a piece out of you."
"... the beating heart of the show..."
"Garfield is the beating heart of the show, but the entire ensemble breaks out of expected roles to place Under The Banner Of Heaven among the best miniseries of the year."
"...multifaceted performance.."
"Andrew Garfield turns in an amazing, multifaceted performance as Larson’s semi-fictional avatar in the ... colorful, fantastical but still realistic New York City landscape..."
"Garfield is on charisma overdrive"
"Garfield is on charisma overdrive as Larson, attacking every scene with a crazed grin that seems to be a drastic error of judgment until, midway through, it makes sense."
"....a sensational performance ..."
"Deftly expanding the source material into a movie, the film is anchored by a sensational performance by Andrew Garfield as Larson..."
"An Intense Experience"
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"Visualy Over-powering
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"Amazing Soundtrack"
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