The fifth episode of our season on the awesome movie year of 1996 features our pick for the year’s most notable documentary, Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky’s Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills. The second feature collaboration between directors Berlinger and Sinofsky, Paradise Lost premiered at the 1996 Sundance Film Festival before airing on HBO in June 1996.

The contemporary reviews quoted in this episode come from Roger Ebert (https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/paradise-lost-the-child-murders-at-robin-hood-hills-1996), Janet Maslin in the New York Times (https://www.nytimes.com/1996/03/26/movies/film-festival-review-in-the-shadows-of-hell-and-hatred.html), and Peter Stack in the San Francisco Chronicle (https://www.sfgate.com/movies/article/FILM-REVIEW-Dark-Side-of-Paradise-Murder-2959351.php).

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