Black heels on a tile floor, and a seamed stocking leading up to a pencil skirt and a simple white blouse. In a Classical Hollywood noir film, that look would belong to the femme fatale, the ...

So, while I giggled through early bits there, especially Evans' absolutely wild character, I kept waiting for sillier humor ...

Margaret Qualley in "Honey Don't!" (Courtesy Karen Kuehn/Focus Features) The most frustrating kind of film is one where you can see promising elements almost coming together, but never quite getting ...

‘Honey Don’t!’ is a raunchy pulp detective story in which a woman’s death exposes a wider web of corruption and delinquency. A scene from 'Honey Don't!' courtesy of Focus Features A scene from 'Honey ...

As played by Margaret Qualley, Honey is both private investigator and femme fatale, smooth and understated, a queer, 2025 version of the hard-boiled detective. She’s all click-clacking heels, black ...

In 2024, married filmmakers Ethan Coen and Tricia Cooke posed a cheeky question with their screwball caper “Drive-Away Dolls” — what if crime comedies could be way less masculine, and way more sapphic ...

Last year’s smash horror hit “The Substance” was an exercise in excess. The film featured gnarly practical effects, outsized, absurdist humor and enough fake blood to fill a local water tower. But ...

In the dark comedy “Honey Don’t!” private detective Honey O’Donahue (Margaret Qualley) investigates a suspicious death that leads her to a narcissistic reverend (Chris Evans) and his mysterious church ...

It’s best not to think of Honey Don’t! as a whodunit, just as it would have been equally unwise to think of the same filmmakers’ Drive Away Dolls as a movie about a car chase. Though largely different ...

I really wanted to like Honey Don’t! — but maybe this relationship was doomed from the start (spoilers incoming). Honey Don’t! follows Honey O’Donahue (Margaret Qualley), a private investigator ...