Netflix’s top 10 movies list is usually dominated by accessible (and often entirely disposable) movies from crowd-pleasing genres like action, comedy and animation, so it’s a pleasant surprise to see a serious, thoughtful, affecting drama like “His Three Daughters” take its place on the list. While it may not be successful enough to start a trend, it’s still reaching a far wider audience than such a small, self-contained indie drama usually does.
Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Olsen and Natasha Lyonne play the title characters, semi-estranged sisters who reunite to care for their father in his final stages of terminal cancer. Writer-director Azazel Jacobs’ movie takes place almost entirely within the family’s New York City apartment, where the sisters confront past resentments and process their anticipatory grief.
