'Armageddon Time' review: James Gray's most personal work
Banks Repeta plays an 11-year-old version of the writer-director James Gray in this stirring semi-autobiographical drama, also featuring Anthony Hopkins, Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong.
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Banks Repeta plays an 11-year-old version of the writer-director James Gray in this stirring semi-autobiographical drama, also featuring Anthony Hopkins, Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong.
New York in 1980 is the setting for James Gray’s brooding, bittersweet story of family conflict and interracial friendship.
Back-to-back epics exhausted Gray, who returns to his roots with the deeply personal 'Armageddon Time,' starring Jeremy Strong as his mercurial father.
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 work about a very specific time and place when he was anything but — age 11 and starting sixth grade.
Drawing from his own life, director James Gray unfurls perspectives on coming-of-age, prejudice, and moral responsibility in his latest film, “Armageddon Time.’