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In 2016, the accomplished documentary filmmaker Alice Diop, sat in the courtroom in the town of Saint-Omer, listening to the chilling testimony of Fabienne Kabou, a French-Senegalese woman accused of killing her infant daughter. Kabou breast-fed the baby before placing her on the sand of the Berck-sur-Mer beach, leaving her to drown in the rising…

“Plane” is the case of an action movie in which the dumb title—the most memorable thing about it—isn’t an artistic statement, it’s an alibi. If it can convince you that it’s so simple, suddenly all of its laziness with character development, plotting, action sequences, etc., seems quaint, if not knowing. Add the pitch of Gerard…

Nineties nostalgia is in full swing. Looking at the store window displays over the last few weeks of holiday shopping, I had many moments of déjà vu. I wondered, “Didn’t I wear that back in the day?” Somehow, “back in the day” has become three decades ago and what’s old is new again—but with a…