When we first meet Aubrey, she’s five years old; the purple beads in her braids glow in the light from her fish tank as she brags about her math skills. She claims to have learned her multiplication tables from her cousin, but in truth she’s developed her impressive number sense through day-to-day life. “He’s coming home in seven more years,” she says of her father, Keith, one of several incarcerated men featured in Daughters, the multiple Sundance Award-winning documentary, currently streaming on Netflix and playing in select theaters.

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DAUGHTERS ★★★1/2 (3.5/4 stars)
Directed by: Natalie Rae, Angela Patton
Running time: 107 mins.

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