Review of Armageddon Time (2022) by Everett — 09 Jan 2023

This is a gem. Without a bombastic score to tell us how to feel, we are moved on our own, because of a well-written script and performances that make the most of the characters they've been gifted with. The very young protagonist is phenomenal. He has to carry this film and does it with astonishing effortlessness; he WAS this kid. The rest are perfectly cast. I found this movie quietly powerful, and it will stay with me, not only because it captures these people, this family, but because of its wider implications for the world, with its bigotries that go on and on, generation after generation.

There's only so much one person can do. But if wisdom is available - as it is here, embodied by Anthony Hopkins' character - then there's hope for people like the boy's complicated dad, and for us all.