“If there’s a longer, better-balanced cut of ‘Armageddon Time,’ I’d like to see it. This one’s still worth seeing,” writes Tribune critic Michael Phillips.
Jaylin Webb, left, and Banks Repeta in the 1980s-set memory movie"Armageddon Time."
In “Armageddon Time,” writer-director James Gray revisits his 12-year-old state of mind in this semi-autobiographical depiction of a working-class Jewish family living in the Flushing neighborhood of Queens, New York. The year is 1980. Reagan’s America glows on the horizon, even as Reagan gives stump speeches about imminent nuclear Armageddon only he can prevent.The film begins on the first day of sixth grade in PS 173.
The movie has a sense of humor, but its sense of dread, micro and macro, overrules it. Paul and Johnny ditch a school field trip to the Guggenheim Museum and hit the video game arcade. Their transgressions grow riskier: Caught by their teacher smoking pot in the boys’ room, the boys are punished. Already, Johnny has been held back a year and the school, the system, has given up on him.
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