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Andrew Garfield is incapable of giving a meaningless expression. When he stares — be it at a person, a doorway, or an empty bedroom — waves of anguish and hesitation break across his face. This quality can sometimes be a bit much, but it mostly serves him well in John Crowley’s tearjerking, timeline-hopping romantic drama We Live in Time, a chronicle of the eventful, years-long relationship between Weetabix sales rep Tobias (Garfield) and acclaimed chef Almut (Florence Pugh). The film jumps back and forth between scenes from the couple’s life together — their ridiculous meet cute, their torrid sex sessions, their pregnancy, their extended ordeals with Almut’s cancer. (None of these are spoilers: The movie tells…
