Armageddon Time

Armageddon Time (2022) is James Gray's coming-of-age drama, available to watch online on iFILM. Queens, autumn 1980. Paul Graff, a sixth-grader from a Jewish household, wants to be an artist, skips class, and starts noticing how unfairly the world is wired.

Paul grows close to Johnny, a Black classmate the teachers have already written off. His family doesn't approve. Jeremy Strong plays the strict father, Anne Hathaway the worn-out mother, and Anthony Hopkins the grandfather who actually listens. To set the boy "straight," they ship him off to a pricey private school where the Trump name hangs in the air like a promise. There Paul learns firsthand what privilege buys and what it costs.

Gray drew this almost straight from his own childhood: family, guilt, and the moment a kid first sees the line between insiders and outsiders. It's quiet, small-scale, and refuses to spell out its lesson. If you go for intimate, lived-in stories rather than big plot, it stays with you. Stream Armageddon Time (2022) online on iFILM.