‘The Lost Sons’ Review: A Documentary Mystery About a Kidnapped Baby…and the Haunted Adult He (Maybe) Grows Into
Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticThe documentary as true-life suspense mystery came to the fore, and might have been invented, by Errol Morris, when he released “The Thin Blue Line” in 1988. It was the rare nonfiction film that had a demonstrable real-world impact (its twisty investigation into the case of a convicted killer, Randall Adams, led to Adams’ conviction being overturned by the Texas Court of Appeals).