Lost Girls

2020 Directed by Liz Garbus

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 sex workers.

Amy Ryan Thomasin McKenzie Lola Kirke Gabriel Byrne Oona Laurence Dean Winters Molly Brown Kevin Corrigan Miriam Shor Austyn Johnson Reed Birney Rosal Colon Haskiri Velazquez Harvey B. Jackson Jared Johnston Jimi Stanton Matthew F. O'Connor Brian Adam DeJesus Stan Carp Karan Choudhary Sarah Wisser Aaron Morton Jon Haslam Grace Capeless Laurie Dawn Jon Berry Paul Bomba Brian Depetris

Alternative Title

Filles perdues

thriller mystery drama

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Review by ty ★★★ 1

Future Academy Award winner Thomasin McKenzie getting more roles!!! We love to see it!!!
Review by JOSIAH ★★½

girls? lost
my time? also lost.
Review by Austin Burke ★★½ 2

⚠️54%
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It isn’t that Lost Girls ends up “failing” in any category, but it never quite had me as gripped as it thought it did. This film is a beautiful acting showcase, as every single performance works extremely well. Amy Ryan brings an emotional performance that showcases how far a loving mother is willing to go. Thomasin McKenzie (subtly) dominates every second of screen time. Their relationship is one of the more integral elements of the film, and it’s the up and down aspect (of where it takes them) that hits so hard towards the end. It also shines light on the fact that some just dont do as much as they…
Review by Sally Jane Black

This movie makes a smart decision in the writing and execution: it focuses on Mari Gilbert's fight. It doesn't focus on or sympathize (much) with the police. It doesn't focus on the killer, who remains unknown anyway. It focuses on the mother of one of the victims, but not in a way that diminishes the victims. Instead, she becomes their advocate; through her surrogacy, we feel the pain of loss, the anger and frustration caused by the police and the demonization of sex workers (though it is far from perfect on that score). It does not delve deeply into the story of Sarra Gilbert, whose tragic role in this story would probably not have been handled well by a major…
Review by bethany ★★★ 2

thomasin mckenzie and lola kirke saved this film—the production was unfortunately lacking in a lot of areas (besides the accurate portrayal of how incompetent police officers are and how badly they treat people) but this true story is so incredibly important and i'm so glad netflix uses their platform to bring real life issues that matter to the spotlight. sex work is work and sex workers are people too; lost girls did a really great job at showing that despite its faults and i believe it comes down to the fact that it was directed by a woman. i hope audiences get to see more of these stories and i hope that we fight to see them portrayed accurately.
Review by 😷Lebowskidoo🍁 ★★★★

Deeply disturbing true story of a serial killer on the loose and the inept bungling and general non-interest by the police involved.
The actors saved this movie, it gets a little dull when it should have been propelling forward even more. But overall, it's worth watching. It's very informative on an actual case on Long Island. Stay through the end credits for extra depressing updates on the characters. Not a happy story.

Recent reviews

Review by Arnold ★★½

Unpopular opinion to characters in this film:
People making certain decisions that put them in dangerous situations should be held more accountable than the police who are supposed to help get them out of the dangerous situations.
But also, police incompetence is incredibly infuriating, therefore helping the opinion of the characters that the police should be almost entirely held accountable for the lives of others even when those others are putting themselves in dangerous situations.
Review by Pauline Price ★★★

An interesting story to tell.
However I just don’t feel like the story was told very well here. I think Amy Ryan is better than what she did here - script lacking maybe?
Thomasin McKenzie is super talented and I look forward to her future!
Review by Tris Arthur ★½

How did they take a story with a decent amount of potential and manage to make the most uninteresting, uninspired movie possible with it? This is why I tend to avoid watching random Netflix dramas.
Review by Paty1812 ★★★½

Baseado em uma história real, Lost Girls promove uma reflexão acerca da atenção que o poder público direciona a grupos que situam a margem da sociedade, ao expor os dilemas e tensões inerentes a repercussão de casos policiais. Ao situar o expectador na longa e comovente procura de uma mãe por sua filha, cujo desaparecimento tem estreita relação com o assassinato de outras quatro mulheres em Long Island, a trama estabelece uma comunicação aproximada com os personagens e a busca dos fatos através da utilização de recursos tais como o enquadramento de câmera que, ao enfatizar planos fechados, retratam a essencialidade das expressões fragilizadas e ansiosas dos familiares das vítimas, aspecto que humaniza a história, bem como conduz quem está assistindo a interpretar e desvendar conjuntamente as possíveis resoluções do caso por meio dos detalhes que se apresentam nas pequenas arestas que se apresentam no desenrolar da narrativa. Destaque pra interpretação singelamente comovente e naturalista de Thomasin McKenzie.
Review by Caleb ★★½

Lost Girls which is based off of a true story (I didn’t realize this until I googled the film halfway through) has a very interesting story to tell but really struggles to captivate the viewer. The movie thinks they have you captivated and intrigued but they really don’t and it instead just comes off as bland.
So the film is off of a true story in Stanton Island about a serial killer and the disappearance of a group of girls. This idea being put into a 95 minute film doesn’t work well as it feels like a lot of information is being left out. In my opinion this would have worked better as a miniseries.
I thought the acting…
Review by Neil Stephen Luy ★★

another Netflix original snoozefest
Review by Woodhouse ★★★

Eh...quasi dai. Traversa.
Review by kettellkorn ★★

This review may contain spoilers. I can handle the truth.

Wow Hollys life really took a turn for the worse once she got transferred.
Also anyone else think it was weird that they just snuck in that her daughter killed her at the end?
Review by mooviegirl ★★★★

A very interesting story. Sad and harrowing but told well. Great acting from the whole cast. Definitely one to watch if you like the true crime genre