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Armageddon Time review: Trump and Reagan provide a backdrop to a flawed yet interesting family drama

Anthony Hopkins and Jeremy Strong star in a film that’s a bit too busy to find any clarity in what it’s exploring

The Independent UK

‘Armageddon Time’ review: Coming of age in Reagan’s America

Filmmakers, the better ones, don’t make movies about their childhoods because they know how they feel about what happened. They do it because they’re trying to figure it out in hindsight, with a camera.

Chicago Tribune

Armageddon Time casts Anne Hathaway, Anthony Hopkins and Jeremy Strong as director James Gray’s real-life Jewish immigrant family

In James Gray’s autobiographical Armageddon Time, the friendship between a white Jewish boy and his Black classmate grates against the backdrop of race and class tensions in 80s New York.

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'Armageddon Time' director says he can cast non-Jewish actors as Jews: 'It's my story'

Director James Gray is defending his latest film, "Armageddon Time," just days into its theatrical release.

Los Angeles Times

How a painful chapter from his own youth revived James Gray's passion for filmmaking

"Armageddon Time," written and directed by James Gray, is one of a number of films this season drawn from the filmmakers' own personal experience: Steven Spielberg's "The Fabelmans," Sam Mendes' "Empire of Light," Charlotte Wells' "Aftersun," Elegance Bratton's "The Inspection."

Los Angeles Times

Review: In the wrenching 'Armageddon Time,' a filmmaker powerfully confronts his own privilege

It's fitting that "Armageddon Time," James Gray's quietly anguished movie about events from his own childhood, begins with a kid arriving at a school and ends with him departing another. In between those bookending images, 11-year-old Paul Graff (Banks Repeta) receives an education of a cruel and costly order, though…

Los Angeles Times

‘Armageddon Time,’ Portrait of White Privilege, Stirs Cannes

When the Cannes Film Festival audience stood to applaud James Gray’s richly observed autobiographical drama “Armageddon Time,” about the director’s own 1980s childhood in Queens, Gray’s voice quivered as he addressed the crowd. “It’s my story, in a way,” said Gray. “And you guys shared it with me.” “It took…

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'Armageddon Time,' portrait of white privilege, stirs Cannes

James Gray’s autobiographical coming of age film “Armageddon Time,” starring Anthony Hopkins, Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong, has made the biggest splash of an American film not starring Tom Cruise at the Cannes Film Festival

The Independent UK

Review: The underappreciated James Gray returns to Cannes with a memoir of '80s New York

CANNES, France — The title of James Gray's "Armageddon Time," which premiered in competition Thursday night at the 75th annual Cannes Film Festival, is a wry reference to a comment made by Ronald Reagan during his first presidential campaign: "We may be the generation that sees Armageddon," he said in…

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