Movie reviews: Music takes centre stage in Lin-Manuel Miranda's 'Tick, Tick… BOOM!
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This week, TV pop culture critic Richard Crouse reviews new movies: 'Tick, Tick... Boom,' 'This Game's Called Murder,' 'Brian Wilson: Long Promised Road' and 'The Souvenir Part II.'
Tailor made for fans of musical theatre, “Tick, Tick...BOOM!,” Lin-Manuel Miranda’s Netflix autobiographical musical about “Rent” composer Jonathan Larson, is a celebration of the creative process and the following of dreams.
“Everything you are about to see is true… except for the parts Jonathan made up.”
It’s January of 1990 and Larson (Andrew Garfield) is a wannabe composer, working at a restaurant to pay the bills. He’s also about to turn 30 – older than Stephen Sondheim when he wrote his first musical. Older than Paul McCartney when he wrote his last song with John Lennon.
