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Origin is an immersive, impressive film based on African-American journalist Isabel Wilkerson's international investigation of race and caste.

Ellis-Taylor plays “Caste” author Isabel Wilkerson in this ambitious attempt to imagine the creative process.

Words like “important” and “vital” are thrown around possibly a little too much in film criticism. It’s not that we don’t mean it — it’s just that sometimes we (ok, I) can get a bit excited. And when ...

The book in question is "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents," in which Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson offers an overriding theory about power and hierarchy and systemic dehumanization in social structures, connecting the Black experience in America to the Dalits of India and Jewish people in Nazi Germany.

Ava DuVernay's boldly original "Origin" laces a writer's eye-opening philosophical journey with gripping personal drama.

Keynote work of American non-fiction reworked into bold narrative film

Words like "important" and "vital" are thrown around possibly a little too much in film criticism. It's not that we don't mean it - it's just that sometimes we (ok, I) can get a bit excited. And when watching and reviewing good films in real time, it's impossible to know what is yet to come. Will th

Words like “important” and “vital” are thrown around possibly a little too much in film criticism. It’s not that we don’t mean it — it’s just that sometimes we (OK, I) can get a bit ex...

Ava DuVernay’s adaptation of Isabel Wilkerson’s book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents is persuasive, but doesn’t work as a drama. In theaters Jan. 18.

Words like “important” and “vital” are thrown around possibly a little too much in film criticism. Ava DuVernay’s new film “Origin” is that something else. It is a powerful and artistic interpretation of an academic book that was anything but an obvious candidate for a narrative feature.