If I were to analyze this movie objectively, it’s a poorly written, visually unappealing movie that is only catered to young children. Which isn’t automatically a bad thing, but we’ll get there. It’s ...

After touching the stars with Brad Pitt, filmmaker James Gray has come back to earth to explore his own childhood in “ Armageddon Time. ” Set in the fall of 1980, in Queens, it is a patient and mature ...

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Reggae, the Trumps, and another major Anthony Hopkins performance swirl together in James Gray's small but extraordinary (and extremely Jewish) coming-of-age story. That moment is something of a ...

CHICAGO - There’s a simple way to make a coming-of-age story, one in which protagonists learn some hard but clear lessons that help push them from childhood into adulthood. They gain a sense of right ...

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Armageddon Time was reviewed out of the Cannes Film Festival, where it made its world premiere. The early ‘80s was a strange and anxious time. Mounting tensions between Russia and the West hung in the ...

This review originally ran May 19, 2022, in conjunction with the film’s world premiere at the Cannes Film Festival. Kenneth Branagh’s childhood was transformed by the Troubles in Northern Ireland, ...