'Armageddon Time' stars Anthony Hopkins, Anne Hathaway and Jeremy Strong – but its two young leads are the main attraction. Film critic Keith Phipps reviews this compelling coming-of-age story.
In a telling moment early in the film, Paul tells Jonathan that he and his family are super-rich, which they demonstrably are not. They live in a nice, but cramped, middle class house in Queens paid for in part by Paul’s father Irving , who works as a plumber. Yet compared to Jonathan, they have it all.
Anne Hathaway stars as Esther Graff and Jeremy Strong stars as Irving Graff in director James Gray's ARMAGEDDON TIME, a Focus Features release. Courtesy of Anne Joyce/Focus Features But if Paul’s recognition of his own privilege is part of the story of "Armageddon Time," it’s far from the whole story, which involves Paul coming to see the contradictions and hypocrisies of the world in which he’s growing up. Good liberals, his parents first scoff at, then fear, the political ascent of Ronald Reagan, all while pushing Paul away from Jonathan and warning him about how they saw a Black kid skulking around the house.
Hathaway and Strong are quite good, but it’s Repeta and Webb who anchor the movie, delivering vulnerable, naturalistic performances as a pair of New York lost boys who meet a series of reckonings for their free-spirited ways. But the reckonings fall more heavily on the Black kid than the white one.
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