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The goal isn’t to find a killer, so much as it is to emphasize the ways women’s stories are often dismissed, and how people who aren’t well-off aren’t offered the same institutional consideration and care as the rich. It’s a compelling point to make, but one almost lost in the movie’s murky execution.

Liz Garbus's Lost Girls proves that the director can make not only good documentaries, but also feature films. The film is a worthwhile contemporary document about a still-unsolved murder case. With Amy Ryan in the lead role, it also boasts an excellent cast. The film is very well directed and depicts a mother's desperate fight against the ignorance and incompetence of a police department that is failing on all fronts. This reality is portrayed so shockingly that the film captivates the viewer, and there's never a dull moment.

Garbus brings off something extraordinary in a film that sets out to leave us sad, enraged, and profoundly unsatisfied. Lost Girls makes us want to rethink our need for a certain kind of closure in a world that has so little of it.