Lost Girls (Liz Garbus, 2020)

Lost Girls is less about the Long Island serial killer than a mother's fight against the general police indifference surrounding the case. But that's all it's about which is to say that Lost Girls suffers the fate of all topical films. Documentary filmmaker Liz Garbus cannot ventilate the true-crime proceedings enough so that the film possesses a dramatic heft of its own. Still, great performances abound and Garbus has a feel for the working-class milieu that drove many of the victims into sex work.      

Grade: B