Review of tick, tick... BOOM! (2021) by Theredsky — 02 Dec 2021

It’s films like this that make me want to check out more musicals. I’ve never listened or watched any plays by Jonathan Larson but now I want to. After reading up on him more after this movie, I can say that Andrew Garfield absolutely nails him.

His movements from what I saw feel perfect and the performance itself is just phenomenal. It’s probably my 2nd favorite Andrew Garfield performance behind The Social Network. His performance is also one of my favorites of the year.

The other performances in the film like from Robin de Jesús are also phenomenal. The music and musical sequences are fantastic. Each piece sounds incredible and does a great job at adding to the story and when the film decides to have these long song sequences, they are very intricately planned and directed beautifully.

Lin-Manuel Miranda did a fantastic job for his first major directoral debut. His style is plastered all over this film and it works beautifully. I would love to see him direct more musicals. The writing here works wonders as well.

Each person feels brilliantly characterized and how it incorporates the one man play into the film is done almost perfectly with it maybe feeling off once or twice. If you like musicals or Lin-Manuel Miranda, then I would definitely check this out.