‘Armageddon Time’ review: Coming of age in Reagan’s America
Filmmakers, the better ones, don’t make movies about their childhoods because they know how they feel about what happened. They do it because they’re trying to figure it out in hindsight, with a camera.
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
