All 10 Best Andrew Garfield Movies Ranked (Best to Worst)

David Fincher’s icy autopsy of modern connectivity unspools like a Shakespearean tragedy wrapped in razor-sharp Silicon Valley litigation. Aaron Sorkin’s crackling script uses the founding of Facebook to examine ambition, alienation, and friendship traded away for digital market dominance. Amid the razor-sharp cynicism and calculated chill of Mark Zuckerberg's ruthless ascent, Garfield steps in as Eduardo Saverin to become the beating moral heart of the story. His climactic, rain-soaked confrontation inside the Palo Alto offices remains an iconic eruption of betrayed innocence, proving his ability to puncture cold intellectualism with visceral devastation.

Martin Scorsese’s harrowing adaptation of Shūsaku Endō’s novel confronts the crushing weight of religious silence in 17th-century Japan. The picture moves with meditative cruelty, stripping away romantic notions of martyrdom in favor of agonizing moral trade-offs and muddy, fog-drenched persecution. As Father Sebastião Rodrigues, Garfield shoulders an immense theological crisis, tracking a devout soul unraveling under systemic torture and divine absence. His emaciated frame and hollowed, frantic gaze capture spiritual pride collapsing into quiet humility, marking what remains the most demanding, rigorously disciplined performance in his entire body of work.

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s vibrant tribute to Jonathan Larson turns the mundane panic of an artist’s ticking biological clock into an explosion of theatrical kineticism. Staged with infectious rhythm, the narrative captures the grime and creative desperation of 1990s Soho, where brilliance battles poverty and the looming shadow of the AIDS crisis. Stepping up to sing, play piano, and channel pure nervous electricity, Garfield completely dissolves into Larson. His performance radiates frantic, creative obsession, grounding every musical number with an aching dread of running out of time before leaving an indelible mark on the world.

Mel Gibson stages the bloody meat-grinder of the Pacific theater with unflinching, gut-wrenching brutality, turning the Maeda Escarpment into an inferno of mud, fire, and severed limbs. Against this wall of violence, the film pits the real-life story of conscientious objector Desmond Doss, an unarmed army medic who refused to touch a rifle. Garfield imbues Doss with an unfussy, mountain-boy sincerity that keeps the character from reading as self-righteous. His desperate whisper of 'one more' as he single-handedly rescues wounded comrades elevates visceral combat carnage into an inspiring exploration of stubborn, nonviolent conviction.

Mark Romanek’s adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel offers a devastatingly muted vision of alternate-history Britain, where human clones are reared solely to donate their vital organs. Shot with pale, autumnal grace, the film relies on quiet resignation rather than high-tech dread, exploring how people spend brief, doomed lives when their fate is sealed from birth. Garfield provides the aching counterweight to this sterile cruelty as Tommy, a soul plagued by suppressed fury and tender longing. His desperate, guttural scream in the road headlights when hope vanishes stands as one of modern cinema's rawest depictions of heartbreak.

John Crowley’s fractured chronological romance strips away glossy melodrama to study how ordinary couples navigate the sudden cruelty of mortality. Shifting backward and forward through a decade-long partnership, the film balances spontaneous domestic bliss against the grim logistics of terminal illness. Paired opposite Florence Pugh, Garfield displays a lovely, understated naturalism that grounds the story's emotional turbulence. He underplays the sorrow, relying on affectionate glances, clumsy humor, and quiet domestic patience to create a lived-in portrait of a partner clinging to every passing second before tragedy inevitably takes hold.

Marc Webb’s reboot of the wall-crawler trades Sam Raimi’s sunny, comic-strip pop art for moody urban grit, shadow-drenched alleyways, and indie-romance sensibilities. While the corporate mandate behind retelling the origin story occasionally weighs the narrative down, the central relationship snaps with infectious electricity. Garfield refashions Peter Parker as a twitchy, alienated skater whose cocky crime-fighting persona feels like genuine overcompensation for deep-seated abandonment issues. His incandescent banter with Emma Stone’s Gwen Stacy remains the high-water mark of modern superhero romance, lending genuine emotional stakes to the aerial acrobatics.

Andy Serkis’s directorial debut tackles the life of Robin Cavendish, an adventurous Briton struck down by polio in his twenties and confined to a mechanical respirator. The film sidesteps standard hospital-room despair, opting for lush period brightness and an eccentric celebration of disability rights innovation. Deprived of physical movement from the neck down, Garfield must communicate entirely through facial contortions, buoyant grins, and vocal inflection. While the screenplay leans heavily into cozy British inspirational tropes, his infectious wit and refusal to indulge in cheap self-pity transform potentially cloying sentiment into an authentic, life-affirming character portrait.

Set against the bleak backdrop of 14th-century England, this brutal historical epic trades romanticized medieval pageantry for muddy fields, famine, and peasant insurrection. The production thrives on grim practical textures, capturing the crushing economic desperation that pushes commoners into open, bloody revolt against royal tyranny. At the center of the fray, Garfield brings a weary, dirt-caked intensity to the rebellion's accidental leader, trading his familiar stammering charm for gravelly moral outrage. It is a solid, muscular showing that expands his dramatic range, even if the grim tone occasionally threatens to overwhelm narrative momentum.

Sony’s attempt to prematurely build a sprawling cinematic universe leaves this superhero sequel buckling under convoluted plotting, half-baked villains, and corporate machinery. Yet despite the narrative chaos, the film retains a striking visual flair, punctuated by balletic web-slinging sequences that capture comic panels in motion. Garfield fights valiantly to keep the film grounded, delivering rapid-fire quips beneath the mask and devastating intimacy alongside Emma Stone. The film’s tragic climax relies entirely on his sheer emotional commitment, salvaging a franchise-derailing misfire with an indelible, gut-wrenching beat of superhero heartbreak.