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. But it’s also a significant step up from that first film. The script from Coen and Tricia Cooke (who is married to Coen and also serves as editor) is incredibly tight, resulting in a welcome sub-90-minute runtime but also some less-than-perfect storytelling.

Honey Don’t! follows the titular Honey O’Donahue (Margaret Qualley), a charming and extremely capable Bakersfield P.I., as she investigates the seemingly accidental death of a woman who called her office a few days earlier. This leads Honey to the church of Reverend Drew Devlin (a delightfully scummy Chris Evans). Reverend Drew

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