Film review: Harrowing scenes in Origin and a compelling performance by Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor

The story really comes alive when DuVernay illustrates her thesis.

Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor stars as author Isabel Wilkerson in Origin

★★★★☆

Commissioned to write a feature on the death of Trayvon Martin in 2012, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Isabel Wilkerson (Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor), baulks at the idea that this latest shooting of a young black man should be labelled as straightforwardly racist.