Armageddon Time

Film - 2022

6,5

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Armageddon Time it's a movie with Banks Repeta, Anne Hathaway, Jeremy Strong, Jaylin Webb, Anthony Hopkins Full cast. Directed by James Gray. Original title Armageddon Time, runtime 115 minutes. Genre Drama.

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When real life tears you apart of

Diego Cineriflessi

I admit that I approached Armageddon time with different prejudices. First of all, despite its critical successes, none of Gray's previous works had ever resonated with me. Point according to the amarcords of great directors they often struggle to become of general interest except for rare exceptions. Instead Gray finds the right tones and the right themes to transform his adolescent parable into a universal tale. The loss of innocence due to entry into society is something as wrong as it is inevitable and the screenplay tells it without hesitation. Armageddon time becomes a lacerating song of modernity. The corruption of the individual caused by social conventions, rules that are almost incomprehensible for a child raised in a family that knows what discrimination is, is narrated in an almost surgical way. As well as the impossibility of escaping this destiny. Gray has a steady hand, he films with the camera, but doesn't linger, he tells, knowing when to stop in the face of pain and without ever exaggerating. His is a cinema that could be defined as classic, at times close to the best of Eastwood, which has the pleasure of storytelling and gentle camera movement capable of accompanying the performers. Protagonist of the last Cannes Film Festival where, however, it did not collect any awards, Armageddon time is a film worth seeing: one of those works in which you can be drawn scene after scene into a masterful tale. Read all

Gabriele Cantoni

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In 1980, Queens, New York, a young Jewish boy befriends a rebellious African-American classmate to the disapproval of his privileged family and begins to reckon with growing up in a world of inequality and prejudice.