His Three Daughters (2024)

As their father nears the end of his life, his three adult daughters are together in the family apartment for the first time in ages. Katie sucks the energy from the room by finding fault everywhere she looks, Christina is a peacemaking yoga-performing type, and Rachel is a sports betting stoner who never made it out of the family home.

Though it took a while to get beyond the personalities (the first half felt like overlong set-up), eventually the depth of the story is revealed. I wound up actually appreciating the early scenes as pretty accurate: we do stall with petty annoyances to avoid the hard stuff. The last couple of scenes were so moving that it redeemed the uncomfortable beginning and middle for me.

B-