“While grappling with tremendous personal tragedy, Isabel sets herself on a path of global investigation and discovery,” the synopsis reads. “Despite the colossal scope of her project, she finds ...

Ava DuVernay is an accomplished dramatic director who knows how to craft a human story around a crusading idea without letting one overwhelm the other. She proved that with 2014’s Selma, her Martin ...

With such a critical election earlier in the week, I found it important to shed a bright light on a tender film released earlier this year that sadly flew way under the radar but is now streaming in ...

The pleasure of historian Isabel Wilkerson’s writing is its luxuriant engagement with our head and our heart, with the notion that any analysis — for example, one focused on America’s Great Migration, ...

For filmmaker Ava DuVernay, who made Selma, 13th, and When They See Us, the journalist Isabel Wilkerson’s watershed 2020 book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (recommended to her repeatedly by ...

“Origin” feels like a movie adaptation of a dissertation, provocative ideas struggling to become compelling cinema. Whether you’ll warm to “Origin” probably depends on whether cuddling up with Kant by ...

It won’t be long until Origin hits theaters. Luckily, we have you covered on all the ways you can watch this new biographical drama! Directed by Ava DuVernay and inspired by a true story, Origin ...