His Three Daughters: Netflix movie has one the best endings in years.

It would be pushing it to call His Three Daughters, written and directed by Azazel Jacobs, a modern-day reimagining of King Lear. The three daughters come from two different mothers, a fact that gains importance as the film goes on: The oldest, Katie, and the youngest, Christina, share the same mother, while the one in the middle, Rachel, only became part of the family upon Vincent’s remarriage after his first wife’s death. Most of all, the sisters gripe about their own fraught interpersonal dynamics, some of them decades in the making: the way Katie’s eldest-child bossiness can make the other two feel more like her employees than her siblings, or the way Christina’s calm air of self-possession can come off as smug perfectionism, or the way Rachel, a stepsister whose long-ago arrival in the family disrupted the existing order, has always been subtly made to feel like she’s less Vincent’s daughter than her sisters are, even though she was the one to care for him in his final years. All three have legitimate grievances to air, but they’re unable to even touch on these subjects without one or more of them crying, storming out of the room, or—in Katie’s and Rachel’s case—getting into a shouting match complete with physical shoves, while their would-be peacemaker of a little sister stands in the middle screaming, “You’re both assholes!” If the daughters are structurally analogous to Lear’s, there is nary a greedy Regan or Goneril among them. But 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.” You’ll notice that the first actor mentioned in this review, Jay O. Sanders, has not come up again so far.