“Origin” (2023) Review

There’s an ambition within Origin that is admirable and keeps this film grounded in its goals. Fluctuating between a true-story drama and historical exploration, the desire for answers and to make sense of this world’s wrongs is something that becomes incredibly relatable. As much as a movie like this meanders around so many angles of race and caste, it maintains an emotional core of finding what matters most.

Based on the non-fiction book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, the film cent...