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"Gadiator II," "In the Summers" & "Daughters"

From left: Paul Mescal in Gladiator II (2024); Allison Salinas, Residente, and Kimaya Thais Limon in In the Summers (2024); Allan James in Daughters (2024).
From left: Paul Mescal in Gladiator II (2024); Allison Salinas, Residente, and Kimaya Thais Limon in In the Summers (2024); Allan James in Daughters (2024).

As any parent knows, raising children can be a rewarding, but often challenging, process. And many a movie has been made documenting that very truth. On this week’s show, Dan Webster, Nathan Weinbender, and Mary Pat Treuthart discuss three movies that, each in its own way, tackles what joys and pains face both sides of the adult-child relationship. Said films are the blockbuster Gladiator II, the streaming feature In the Summers and the Netflix documentary Daughters.

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  • More than 20 years after it won the best picture Oscar, “Gladiator” has a big-screen sequel. Ridley Scott returns as director and is working with a cast that includes Paul Mescal and Denzel Washington, but Nathan Weinbender says “Gladiator II” is mostly a retread.
  • “In the Summers” is a moving look at the frayed bonds between a divorced father and his two daughters, Dan Webster says in his review.