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Armageddon Time review – Hopkins and Hathaway can’t save this stagy tale of a quasi-Trump

A middle-class boy capitalises on his privilege in Reagan-era New York in James Gray’s uncharacteristically syrupy movie

After his brilliant space adventure Ad Astra in 2019, James Gray has come heavily back to Earth. This slightly laborious and self-consciously acted family coming-of-age drama features some perfunctory plot resolutions, and dinner-theatre performances from its all-star cast, including Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Strong and Anne Hathaway.

It is set in Queens, New York in 1980 – the time in which US presidential candidate Ronald Reagan solemnly announced that the US was facing a moral “Armageddon”.

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