Honey Don't! (2025)
Directed by Ethan Coen
Honey O'Donahue, a small-town private investigator, delves into a series of strange deaths tied to a mysterious church.
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…and "The Big Lebowski (1998)."
Their zaniest works, like The Big Lebowski and Raising Arizona, let their sprawling ensembles loose in a fun-house-mirror reflection of reality.
Tonally, it’s reaching for something like “The Big Lebowski”—a mystery that’s less about the case and more about the weirdos bumping into each other along the way.
“Honey Don’t!” often feels like Coen is attempting to rekindle the magical comic noir he and his brother, Joel, created in “The Big Lebowski.”
Considering he and his brother’s The Big Lebowski was already a skewed, slacker vision of a Raymond Chandler story, Honey Don’t! feels reductive from the get-go. Ethan’s been here before, and the familiarity saps a lot of energy from the proceedings.
From someone with The Big Lebowski and Miller’s Crossing on their CV…
…the Coen brothers made such great movies as "Fargo (1996)"…
I was excited at the prospect of a new tight comedy mystery from one of the minds who brought forth some of my favorites including Fargo (1996) and Hail Cesar! (2016). But at the end of the day, Honey O’Donahue is absolutely no Marge Gunderson.
Fargo (1996) may have the woodchipper, but there’s a sense of cruelty and brutality that makes much of the violence in Honey Don’t! uncomfortable to watch…
…the excellent production values and visual integrity that one would expect from a director of “Fargo” and “No Country for Old Men.”
Glenn Howerton, who was fantastic in the first season of Fargo…
Their zaniest works, like The Big Lebowski and Raising Arizona, let their sprawling ensembles loose in a fun-house-mirror reflection of reality.
…it is a mish-mash of archetypes from some of the Coens’ best work (Raising Arizona, No Country for Old Men, to name a few)…
This isn’t a case like “Fargo” or “The Man Who Wasn’t There” in which the banal senselessness is the point…
Ethan Coen and brother Joel, after all, are no stranger to noir (Blood Simple, Miller’s Crossing, The Man Who Wasn’t There).
Ethan Coen and brother Joel, after all, are no stranger to noir (Blood Simple, Miller’s Crossing, The Man Who Wasn’t There).
Ethan Coen and brother Joel, after all, are no stranger to noir (Blood Simple, Miller’s Crossing, The Man Who Wasn’t There).
From someone with The Big Lebowski and Miller’s Crossing on their CV…
Cooke worked as an editor on numerous Coen Brothers films beginning with Miller’s Crossing in 1993…
…this, Dolls, and The Tragedy of MacBeth ain’t no Miller’s Crossing…
Si Drive-Away Dolls se salvaba en parte por su absurdo psicodélico, aquí la apuesta por el noir desnuda las carencias de una narración sin brújula…
Like Drive-Away Dolls (2024)—the somewhat disappointing solo directorial outing from Ethan Coen—Honey Don’t! feels both quintessentially Coen and not quite up to the best of the brothers’ work as a team.
Following “Drive-Away Dolls,” they return with “Honey Don’t!,”…
Where Honey Don’t! shares most kinship with Drive-Away Dolls is in its joyous portrayal of queer sex as a freeing act of rebellion.
Honey Don’t! is a fraction or two better than last year’s Drive-Away Dolls, with a weaker storyline but stronger dialogue and more interesting characterizations.
…following 2024s “Drive-Away Dolls,”…
Titles like Working Girls, Pariah, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, and Carol are but a handful that shatter society’s thinly-sketched or dehumanizing visions of lesbian existence with their richly moving artistry.
…a breathtakingly explicit riff on George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez’s banter-filled sex scene in Out of Sight…
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Titles like Working Girls, Pariah, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, and Carol are but a handful that shatter society’s thinly-sketched or dehumanizing visions of lesbian existence with their richly moving artistry.
Their collaborative sapphic noirs aren’t exploitative or pervy like “Blue Is the Warmest Color,”…
Titles like Working Girls, Pariah, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, and Carol are but a handful that shatter society’s thinly-sketched or dehumanizing visions of lesbian existence with their richly moving artistry.
…opting for more of an eye-rolling, Columbo-esque reveal than anything with any lasting impact…
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An early scene with Billy Eichner as a vengeful client suggests that Honey makes money by spying on those committing infidelity, a nice nod to Jake Gittes from CHINATOWN. (You’ll remember how sartorial he was throughout that classic 1974 film noir as well.)
Titles like Working Girls, Pariah, Portrait of a Lady on Fire, and Carol are but a handful that shatter society’s thinly-sketched or dehumanizing visions of lesbian existence with their richly moving artistry.