Movies starring Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor

Unconventionality is not always an asset and, in attempting to experiment with offbeat techniques to encourage viewer engagement, director RaMell Ross has inadvertently done the opposite, creating distance instead of immersion. In film, shaky cam-...

Ava DuVernay’s Origin functions both as a bio-pic of Pulitzer Prize-winning author Isabel Wilkerson and an exploration of the philosophy underlying her best-selling book, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents. Although the movie has a narrative ...