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- 2024
- R
- Netflix
- 1 h 41 m
- 2024
- R
- Netflix
- 1 h 41 m
Summary Three estranged sisters (Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Olsen, and Natasha Lyonne) converge in a New York apartment to care for their ailing father and try to mend their own broken relationship with one another.
Directed By: Azazel Jacobs
Written By: Azazel Jacobs
- 2024
- R
- Netflix
- 1 h 41 m
- 2024
- R
- Netflix
- 1 h 41 m
His Three Daughters
7.4
Summary Three estranged sisters (Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Olsen, and Natasha Lyonne) converge in a New York apartment to care for their ailing father and try to mend their own broken relationship with one another.
Directed By: Azazel Jacobs
Written By: Azazel Jacobs
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Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 36 Critic Reviews
84
92% Positive
33 Reviews
33 Reviews
8% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Metascore
Universal Acclaim
Based on 36 Critic Reviews
84
92% Positive
33 Reviews
33 Reviews
8% Mixed
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
I will say—with as much clarity as I can muster through the tears once again blurring my vision—that the final 15 minutes or so of His Three Daughters are what lifts the movie out of “impressively fine-tuned family drama starring three excellent actresses” into the stratosphere of “transcendent work of art whose insights into the meaning of human impermanence you may want to change your life to be worthy of.
A mesmerizing study anchored by three incredible leads, each working at the height of their craft. The material is rife for exploration, rich with nuance and discoveries. And the ending packs a wallop.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 18 User Ratings
7.4
72% Positive
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
17% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
11% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 18 User Ratings
7.4
72% Positive
13 Ratings
13 Ratings
17% Mixed
3 Ratings
3 Ratings
11% Negative
2 Ratings
2 Ratings
The heartbreaking plunge into sisterhood and grief that is His Three Daughters is an intensely composed elegy about the devastating effect of saying goodbye to a parent.
By Robert Daniels
FULL REVIEW
His Three Daughters asks major questions but distills them down to this precise story, life’s biggest worries in jewel box miniature.
None of this would be as successful without the magnificent work of Coon, Lyonne, and Olsen, who never strike a false note here. Nothing feels staged, everything feels genuine. Here are three great performances that never feel like performances, and that's pretty damn remarkable.
Jacobs’ understanding of these emotional truths––family ties finding ways to continually adapt, evolve, and mend in the most difficult circumstances––gives Daughters its power.
It’s a pretty good movie that automatically goes up one full notch because of a single great scene, which is one more than most movies have.
"His Three Daughters" shows the harsh realities of siblings needing each other in sad desperate times and letting all the feelings we haven't said come out during the process of letting go of a parent or someone we love. Anchored by a masterclass of powerhouse performances from Natasha Lyonne, Carrie Coon and Elizabeth Olsen, as well an impeccably funny and heartbreaking screenplay by Azazel Jacobs. This movie which was made in 17 days and shot in chronological order is definitely one the best movies of the year.
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Sitting in on a loved one’s death watch can be a trying time in more ways than one can count, circumstances that many of us can probably relate to all too well. It can be an especially stressful, even hostile, experience when incompatible family members are brought together for such an ordeal, one whose duration and developments are impossible to predict. That’s the scenario here faced by three very different (and often-contentious) sisters (Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Olsen, Natasha Lyonne) who begrudgingly join together for the waning days of the life of their father (Jay O. Sanders), who has been placed in home hospice care. During this reluctant, duty-bound “reunion,” tempers routinely flare in confrontations stemming from the rehashing of old, unresolved issues, disagreements about current responsibilities, and the seemingly endless waiting for the inevitable to arrive. These matters all wear on the distraught siblings as they struggle to sort out what’s transpiring and try to arrive at better, more civil understandings of one another. In his latest feature outing, writer-director Azazel Jacobs has created an authentic story about what often occurs under such difficult conditions, astutely blending intense drama, scathing personal interactions, dark humor and hopes for reconciliation against a backdrop of edgy anguish, searing emotional pain and pervasive uncertainty. The picture’s crisp writing and stellar performances (especially Lyonne’s stand-out portrayal) drive the unfolding of this gripping domestic saga, often leaving viewers uncomfortably squirming in their seats as raw, long-repressed feelings surface. To be sure, some of the transition sequences in the narrative could use better refinement to get the overall story on track for what follows, but, then, their handling in this manner could arguably be chalked up to the ubiquitous doubt lingering over this situation, a determination that audience members will have to make for themselves. Still, “His Three Daughters” is indeed one of the better releases of 2024 thus far, one that deserves serious consideration as awards season approaches, particularly in the writing and acting categories. It’s also a powerful cautionary tale for any of us who may be faced with having to undergo a scenario like this at some point, providing us with valuable insight into how we might want to conduct ourselves when these trying times arise.
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