A film of deceptive simplicity, Jason Osder and William Lafi Youmans’s investigative documentary “Who Killed Alex Odeh?” often struggles against its own straightforward style, but in the process, embodies the helplessness of its grieving subjects. Its focus is the 1985 assassination of a Palestinian activist in California, the specifics of which it lays out through archival footage. However, contemporary interviews and investigations turn up surprising answers about who was responsible — not because their identities are unknown, but because the specifics have been in plain sight for decades.
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