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Andrew Garfield is currently the bookies' favorite to take home a Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy for his work in the Lin-Manuel Miranda film Tick, Tick... Boom!
Across his career, the British actor has been nominated for one Oscar (for Hacksaw Ridge) and three Golden Globes (for that film, Tick, Tick... Boom! and The Social Network.)
But which of those is considered his finest film by critics? According to review aggregating sites Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic, here are the most acclaimed movies starring Andrew Garfield.
(And be warned – if you do not want to know whether or not Garfield does or does not appear in a certain Marvel movie, look away now...)
Top 10 Andrew Garfield movies
10. The Amazing Spider-Man
Of the 11 Spider-Man films so far, The Amazing Spider-Man ranks eighth on Rotten Tomatoes, with Garfield considered by many as a Peter Parker who did not get a fair shake at the role. However, his first outing clearly still has some fans.
9. Never Let Me Go
This Kazuo Ishiguro adaptation brought together three of the most exciting British talents of the time (Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan and Garfield) in an unconventional story of cloning. Even against such competition, Garfield gives the movie's best performance.
8. Hacksaw Ridge
Mel Gibson's war film netted Garfield his first Oscar nomination (he lost to Casey Affleck for Manchester By the Sea). Though the reputation of the film has been clouded by the question of whether Hollywood should have let Gibson make it after multiple accusations of anti-semitism and homophobia, there is no doubt that Garfield gives a committed performance as conscientious objector Desmond Doss.
7. Silence
Silence has generally gone down as an ill-advised passion project for Martin Scorsese, cashing his "blank check" for making The Wolf of Wall Street on a long and ponderous film about missionaries in feudal Japan. Garfield's accent in the movie is frankly questionable, but that did not stop a majority of critics enjoying the movie.
6. Tick, Tick... Boom!
Garfield's latest Golden Globe nomination comes from this musical biopic/adaptation of a one man show by Rent creator Jonathan Larson, and he is current favorite to win – even if another project he did in 2021 has the edge on it on Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic.
5. Boy A
Garfield gives one of the most remarkable performances a young actor has ever given in this 2007 drama about a child murderer trying to rehabilitate himself after being released from prison. The project got Garfield a BAFTA nomination, and casting agents everywhere took notice.
4. The Red Riding trilogy
Made for the BBC in the U.K., these three adaptations of David Peace's "Yorkshire noir" books got a cinematic release in the U.S. Garfield unites the trilogy in his role of a young reporter investigating a series of murders of schoolgirls.
3. Spider-Man: No Way Home
Sorry, spoiler haters...Garfield reprises his role of Peter Parker in the third of the Tom Hollland Marvel Cinematic Universe films. And according to many critics (including one here at Newsweek), the actor gives the best of the three Spidey-performances in what is in many ways a redemption of his original outing in the spider-suit.
2. 99 Homes
For his first film after his Spider-run, Garfield went back to his more indie roots, making this low-budget film about a man who evicts people from their homes in order to save his own house. Sadly for the actor, he was overshadowed by Michael Shannon (who received a Golden Globe nomination for the role).
1. The Social Network
David Fincher's take of the Facebook foundation myth is chock-full of young male actors, including Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Timberlake, Armie Hammer (in a dual role) and Max Minghella. But Garfield gives one of the film's strongest performances as Facebook co-founder Eduardo Saverin.
