with just 88 minutes to play with.. it's perhaps no surprise that Lost Girls feels as though it's scratching at the surface of its many potential subjects; theres an interesting film to be made, the combination, sadly, becomes an unedifying tangle
well-intentioned but plodding Netflix true crime drama; As sincere and as sensitive as the film might be, it's never as involving or as effective as the story at its centre; At 95 minutes, "Lost Girls" is sorely lacking
it is a story without a happy ending, or even an ending at all. But Garbus isn't so naive or precious a storyteller to expect reality to afford one – and she should be applauded for not waiting around in vain
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
a well-intentioned but uneven feature debut from the versatile documentarian Liz Garbus; A compassionate drama hampered by true-crime cliches; All told, Lost Girls succeeds in humanizing a grisly news story, but it makes for less than satisfying viewing
"Lost Girls" will inspire audiences to learn more about the women who were lost, the women who still fought for them, and the ones who so desperately deserve to be found