Origin

Name: Origin
Genre: Drama, History
Released: December 8, 2023
Duration: 135 min
Rating: 75
Cast: Audra McDonald, Aunjanue Ellis, Connie Nielsen, Donna Mills, Emily Yancy

2023

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Neon | Release Date: December 8, 2023 | PG-13

Starring: Audra McDonald, Aunjanue Ellis, Connie Nielsen, Donna Mills, Emily Yancy, Finn Wittrock, Isha Blaaker, Jasmine Cephas Jones, Jon Bernthal, Nick Offerman, Niecy Nash, Vera Farmiga, Victoria Pedretti

Summary: While grappling with tremendous personal tragedy, Isabel (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor) sets herself on a path of global investigation and discovery. Despite the colossal scope of her project, she finds beauty and bravery while crafting one of the defining American books of our time. Inspired by the New York Times Best-Seller Caste: The Origins ofWhile grappling with tremendous personal tragedy, Isabel (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor) sets herself on a path of global investigation and discovery. Despite the colossal scope of her project, she finds beauty and bravery while crafting one of the defining American books of our time. Inspired by the New York Times Best-Seller Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents by Pulitzer Prize winner Isabel Wilkerson.… Expand

Director: Ava DuVernay

Genre(s): Drama, History

Rating: PG-13

Runtime: 135 min

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Ann Hornaday

Jan 17, 2024

Origin, Ava DuVernay’s audacious, ambitious adaptation of the equally audacious and ambitious book “Caste,” operates on so many levels at once that the effect is often dizzyingly disorienting. But hang in there: Viewers who allow themselves to be taken on this wide-ranging, occasionally digressive journey will emerge not just edified but emotionally wrung out and, somehow, cleansed. Read full review

Richard Brody

Dec 7, 2023

DuVernay embraces Wilkerson’s work wholeheartedly and rises to the artistic challenge with one of the most unusual and ingenious of recent screenplays. Read full review

Odie Henderson

Jan 25, 2024

It’s not a fun time at the movies, but it’s an informative and worthy one. Read full review

Kimberley Jones

Jan 17, 2024

Origin doesn’t always get there, but the effort is exhilarating. It’s the contact high of an artist really going for it. Read full review

David Fear

Jan 17, 2024

This is a movie that pays tribute to searching for conclusions rather than finding them once and for all, for thinking outside of categories and boxes in search of something more profound. Read full review

Donald Clarke

Mar 7, 2024

For all its flaws, however, Origin does have power as both didactic treatise and drama of recovery. There is something reassuring being said here about the restorative power of work. Read full review

The Daily Beast Caspar Salmon

Feb 28, 2024

The film repeatedly oversimplifies Wilkerson's polemic, dumbing down the argument for an audience that may well start to feel patronized. Read full review

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