2020 · drama · mystery · thriller
Lost Girls
Directed by Liz Garbus1h 35m2020
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.
Our read: Lost Girls (2020) reads as a heavy, steady, inventive drama · mystery · thriller entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Heavy, steady, extreme drama / mystery, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, cold.
- heavy
- extreme
- cold
- twisty
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