There are a lot of tears in this documentary, for the subjects and the audience, too. But Daughters is a remarkable study in how to tell this kind of story without twisting into sentimentality.

Alissa Wilkinson

The New York Times

Rather than telling you how young women are affected by this, Patton and Rae show you. And to watch one of the interviewees go for being a joyous, giddy, chatty child to being a slightly older, more distant and jaded tween is heartbreaking.

David Fear

Rolling Stone

It’s a tender, painful, intimate film, made over several years as we watch four girls in the months before the dance.

Cath Clarke

The Guardian