Honey Don't!

Name: Honey Don't!
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Comedy, Crime
Released: August 22, 2025
Duration: 88 min
Rating: 46

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Focus Features | Release Date: August 22, 2025

Summary: Honey Don't! is a dark comedy about Honey O’Donahue (Margaret Qualley), a small-town private investigator, who delves into a series of strange deaths tied to a mysterious church.

Genre(s): Mystery, Thriller, Comedy, Crime

Runtime: 88 min

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James Berardinelli

Aug 22, 2025

Because it thumbs its nose at the puritanical morality of contemporary mainstream cinema, Honey Don't! feels destined for cult appreciation rather than broad appeal. It’s a diverting curiosity—something to tide us over while we wait for Joel and Ethan Coen to reunite. Read full review

Slashfilm Bill Bria

May 23, 2025

What the movie lacks in laughs it more than makes up for with a hip savviness that pervades every frame. Read full review

The Independent Clarisse Loughrey

Sep 4, 2025

While Honey Don’t! prods at something new and quite poignant, an idea about how survivors see themselves and that loaded word “victimhood”, it ultimately struggles to make much sense out of itself and its oddball cast. Read full review

Lovia Gyarkye

May 23, 2025

Honey Don’t! is a better movie than Drive-Away Dolls thanks to an engaging whodunit plot, but it ultimately suffers from the same issues as its predecessor: The film feels like a series of gags with nowhere to go. Read full review

Looper Matthew Jackson

Aug 21, 2025

It's not a terrible film, to be sure. At times it's even deeply entertaining, because Coen and Cooke clearly still have a certain sense of magic and charm in everything they do. But this dark crime comedy starring Margaret Qualley as a determined private eye is still lacking in a sense of real direction. Read full review

Tara Brady

Sep 4, 2025

Trashy stories need plots and character development, too. Read full review

The Telegraph Robbie Collin

May 23, 2025

In place of classic thriller techniques and mechanisms are a beige aesthetic, limp dialogue and glib let’s-just-vibe-with-it attitude that only grow more maddening as things progress. Read full review

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