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Oct 28, 2022 · Armageddon Time is a semi-autobiographical work that is based on writer-director James Gray’s life growing up in Queens, New York in the 1980s. The Graffs are all characters inspired by Gray’s own family members, as are the elements of racial and socioeconomic disparity that make up the central narrative. Like Paul Graff, Gray also enjoyed ...
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Oct 26, 2022 · Oct. 26, 2022 2:05 PM PT. 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 ...
May 20, 2022 · There’s the merest synapse leap between wanting to do the right thing and actually doing it, and a civilization can rise or fall depending on how many people are willing to bridge that gap ...
May 19, 2022 · 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. By David Ehrlich. May 19, 2022 ...
Oct 28, 2022 · Nell Minow. October 28, 2022. 5 min read. In “Armageddon Time,” people keep trying to wake up 11-year-old Paul Graff (a sensitive performance by Michael Banks Repeta). Paul is a slight, dreamy sixth grader in 1980 Queens, New York. Over the span of two months, from the first day of school until the family watches the returns of the ...
Oct 27, 2022 · Based on Gray's own experiences growing up in New York City in the early 1980s, Armageddon Time centers on Paul Graff (Banks Repeta), a young kid who enjoys drawing, spending time with his grandfather (Anthony Hopkins) and seeing how far he can push his parents (Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong). That rebellious spirit extends to school, where he is close friends with a young Black boy, Johnny ...
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Oct 28, 2022 · What makes Armageddon Time so powerful is that Gray reserves his harshest anger for himself. James Gray has made a loving re-creation of a time and place he knows well — but this is no rosy ...
