Review: True crime narrative ‘Lost Girls’ loses its edge in adaptation

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Review: True crime narrative ‘Lost Girls’ loses its edge in adaptation
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Liz Garbus directs the Netflix true crime drama ‘Lost Girls,’ starring Amy Ryan as a woman searching for her missing daughter, a New Jersey sex worker.

tackles her first narrative feature with a story that’s well within her wheelhouse after her HBO true crime docs such as “Something’s Wrong With Aunt Diane” and “Who Killed Garrett Phillips?”

Kolker’s book is a sprawling story that traverses the Eastern Seaboard from Maine to New York and dives deep into the lives and disappearances of five victims and their families’ search for answers. It’s been condensed into a 95-minute film that focuses primarily on Mari Gilbert , the mother of Shannan Gilbert, a New Jersey sex worker who called 911 in a panic from the gated Long Island community of Oak Beach before disappearing into the night.

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