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7 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 91ColliderRoss BonaimeColliderRoss BonaimeIt is a work of big emotions and heart in the middle of the worst time of a person’s life that is also one of the best films of the year.
- 91The PlaylistGregory EllwoodThe PlaylistGregory EllwoodWhat’s most remarkable about His Three Daughters aren’t the performances. As you’d suspect, Coon, Moss, and Lyonne complement each other perfectly (although we should note this is without question the best work of Lyonne’s career). It’s the fact that Jacobs and cinematographer Sam Levy have crafted a drama that takes place almost entirely in one enclosed space and somehow avoided the dreaded claustrophobic aesthetic that makes one feel like they are watching a filmed play.
- 90The Hollywood ReporterJon FroschThe Hollywood ReporterJon FroschIt’s wry, vivid and moving in unexpected ways.
- 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.
- 83IndieWireKate ErblandIndieWireKate ErblandHis Three Daughters asks major questions but distills them down to this precise story, life’s biggest worries in jewel box miniature.
- 75The Film StageC.J. PrinceThe Film StageC.J. PrinceJacobs’ understanding of these emotional truths––family ties finding ways to continually adapt, evolve, and mend in the most difficult circumstances––gives Daughters its power.
- 60The GuardianAdrian HortonThe GuardianAdrian HortonGiven His Three Daughters’ fidelity to the cold facts of dying, the final minutes makes a bold and uneasy logic leap that pulls on the heartstrings but feels too neat for a drama this lived in, for sibling bonds this spiky.