Lost Girls
Two-time Oscar-nominated documentarian Liz Garbus makes her narrative feature debut with this true story murder mystery starring Oscar nominee Amy Ryan (Gone Baby Gone).
A mother's (Ryan) search for her missing daughter leads to a horrifying discovery that connects the disappearance to the murder of over a dozen other girls.
- Director:
- Liz Garbus ('The Farm: Angola, USA', 'What Happened, Miss Simone?', 'Girlhood')
- Writer:
- Michael Werwie
- Cast:
- Amy RyanGabriel ByrneLola KirkeDean WintersOona LaurenceThomasin McKenzieKevin Corrigan
Reviews & comments
Flicks, Steve Newall
flicksLost Girls works just fine as a not-overegged drama and also true-crime tale. Even if the mystery isn’t powered by jaw-dropping moments, there’s always Amy Ryan’s Mari. Swearing, yelling, chain-smoking and fixated on what she thinks her family needs most, not seeing how her actions isolate and impact them, the character convinces and compels at the centre of this sad tale.
Stuff
pressGiven the slim running time, Michael Werwie's (Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile) script is somewhat slight, but still satisfyingly taut and allows the likes of Ryan (Gone Baby Gone, Changeling) , McKenzie (Jojo Rabbit) and Gabriel Byrne (The Usual Suspects), as the world-weary commissioner in Mari's firing line, moments to shine. An understated drama well worth seeking out.
The Guardian
pressAt 95 minutes, Lost Girls is sorely lacking and, ironically, one wonders what a Garbus docuseries could have found instead.
The New York Times
pressIt's serious, respectful, gravely melancholic. Yet anger best describes the movie's atmosphere, its overall mood and its authorial tone
New York Post
pressLoses some momentum in the domestic scenes with Mari and her other daughters (Thomasin McKenzie and Oona Laurence), which are so brief, they feel cut down for time. But when Garbus takes the long view — her camera pulling back to emphasize the awful loneliness of the marshy stretches where these women died — “Lost Girls” hits hard.
RogerEbert.com
pressAn emotional examination of one of the most famous unsolved cases of the modern era.
Collider
pressLiz Garbus' adaptation of 'Lost Girls' never amounts to more than a story about one mother's anger despite all the issues surrounding the case.
Hollywood Reporter
pressThe intention to show how the justice system failed these forgotten women is honourable, but the dramatic execution is lacking.
IndieWire
pressKolker himself has compared his book to writing about the maiden voyage of the Titanic - everyone knows how it ends, the trick is making people care about how it gets there - and Garbus mostly succeeds in keeping up that unique tension.
Flicks, Steve Newall
flicksLost Girls works just fine as a not-overegged drama and also true-crime tale. Even if the mystery isn’t powered by jaw-dropping moments, there’s always Amy Ryan’s Mari. Swearing, yelling, chain-smoking and fixated on what she thinks her family needs most, not seeing how her actions isolate and impact them, the character convinces and compels at the centre of this sad tale.
Stuff
pressGiven the slim running time, Michael Werwie's (Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile) script is somewhat slight, but still satisfyingly taut and allows the likes of Ryan (Gone Baby Gone, Changeling) , McKenzie (Jojo Rabbit) and Gabriel Byrne (The Usual Suspects), as the world-weary commissioner in Mari's firing line, moments to shine. An understated drama well worth seeking out.
The Guardian
pressAt 95 minutes, Lost Girls is sorely lacking and, ironically, one wonders what a Garbus docuseries could have found instead.
The New York Times
pressIt's serious, respectful, gravely melancholic. Yet anger best describes the movie's atmosphere, its overall mood and its authorial tone
New York Post
pressLoses some momentum in the domestic scenes with Mari and her other daughters (Thomasin McKenzie and Oona Laurence), which are so brief, they feel cut down for time. But when Garbus takes the long view — her camera pulling back to emphasize the awful loneliness of the marshy stretches where these women died — “Lost Girls” hits hard.
RogerEbert.com
pressAn emotional examination of one of the most famous unsolved cases of the modern era.
Collider
pressLiz Garbus' adaptation of 'Lost Girls' never amounts to more than a story about one mother's anger despite all the issues surrounding the case.
Hollywood Reporter
pressThe intention to show how the justice system failed these forgotten women is honourable, but the dramatic execution is lacking.
IndieWire
pressKolker himself has compared his book to writing about the maiden voyage of the Titanic - everyone knows how it ends, the trick is making people care about how it gets there - and Garbus mostly succeeds in keeping up that unique tension.
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