Synopsis
When Mari Gilbert's daughter disappears, police inaction drives her own investigation into the gated Long Island community where Shannan was last seen. Her search brings attention to over a dozen murdered prostitutes.
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Cast
- Amy RyanMari Gilbert
- Thomasin McKenzieSherre Gilbert
- Lola KirkeKim
- Gabriel ByrneRichard Dormer
- Oona LaurenceSarra Gilbert
- Dean WintersDean Bostick
- Molly BrownMissy
- Kevin CorriganJoe Scalise
- Miriam ShorLorraine
- Austyn JohnsonYoung Shannan
Recommendations
- 80
Variety
In Lost Girls, Liz Garbus takes the serial-killer thriller and turns it on its head, insisting that we see the victims as larger than the crimes that destroyed them. - 80
The New York Times
There are different ways to describe Garbus’s telling of this mystery: it’s serious, respectful, gravely melancholic. Yet anger best describes the movie’s atmosphere, its overall mood and its authorial tone. - 75
RogerEbert.com
While this isn't another Garbus documentary, she’s made a film with all the power of great non-fiction storytelling, and found a way to make the emotional message of this story hit home in a way that it wouldn’t have otherwise. - 75
IndieWire
Garbus, who has long been motivated by stories about remarkable women and horrible crimes, makes a strong showing with Lost Girls, her first narrative feature in her decades-long career. - 75
The Globe and Mail (Toronto)
Just as it is possible to make a compelling doc without telling an entire life’s story end to end, Lost Girls proves that you can make a substantial thriller that doesn’t rely on a comforting real-world conclusion. - 75
Entertainment Weekly
It helps immensely that the film has an actress like Amy Ryan (Birdman, Beautiful Boy) to play Mari Gilbert, whose years-long battle to get anyone at all — the press, the police, the people of New York — to care about her daughter Shannan forms the emotional core of the story. - 67
The Playlist
For all the impressive craft, sense of harrowing anxiety and searing performances on display, Lost Girls doesn’t seem to know how to wrap things up and it hurts the picture overall. - 67
The A.V. Club
What’s both intriguing and frustrating about the screen version, however, is the way that it flirts with a much thornier and potentially richer possibility, only to ultimately back away from that idea in favor of a straightforward plea for justice.
