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Jan 16, 2024 · “Origin” aims to link the violent repercussions of American slavery to the horrific crimes of the Holocaust to India’s degrading caste system in a narrative that combines gnawing grief with a cyclical sense of history.
Mar 7, 2024 · Overlooked at the Oscars, the film is the year’s Best Socio-Historical-Contemporary-Biopic. From the start, DuVernay marches to her own drum. It is 2012. Wilkerson is still being praised...
Dec 7, 2023 · Ava DuVernay’s “Origin” is as audacious as it is ambitious. At its core, it concerns an intellectual argument about history and hierarchies of power, but it’s also about the fraught process...
Jan 17, 2024 · ‘Origin’ May Be the Most Important Biopic of a Book Ever Made. Using Isabel Wilkerson's Caste as a starting point, Selma filmmaker Ava DuVernay turns the making of a bestseller into an ambitious...
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May 3, 2024 · DuVernay’s sweeping odyssey is an ambitious (if sometimes messy) spectacle. At its best, it holds a poignant power that provides plenty of food for thought — enough to linger long after the...
Sep 6, 2023 · Ava DuVernay's 'Origin,' starring Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor and Jon Bernthal, looks at the story behind Isabel Wilkerson's theory of American racism.
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Jan 19, 2024 · The result is an emotional powerhouse that you'll be talking about for years, even if you don't agree with all of Wilkerson's arguments. With "Origin," DuVernay gives us something rare in a multiplex dominated by comic-book escapism: a movie that matters.
