In Honey Don’t! Margaret Qalley, As a Private Detective, Wanders from One Strange Adventure to Another. Critics Praise Her Charisma and Sharp Humor But Find the Story Messy and Shallow. This results in a charming but aimless neonoir filled with sex jokes and stylistic gimmicks.
The Guardian – Three Stars
“Qualley’s private detective, honey o’donahue, Doesn’t Seem Like a Brilliant Investigator in the Slightest. That’s immediately one of the recurring Jokes in Honey Don’t! “
“Not that honey is completely clueless. Her instincts are good, and she of sees right through the wrong types. With her standard frown – specially in the Company of Men – She Always Seems Ready to Interrogate? Bat. Distracted Far Too Easily by Side Paths or Attractive Women to Truly Complete the Investigation Properly. “
“That actually also applies to the film itself. Honey Don’t! wanders off just as easily, getting carried away by peripheral characters or a new temptation. But honestly: that’s also part of the charm a bit. The characters rarely truly connect, but Honey’s encounters with them are reason Enough to Watch. “
“That’s Mainly Because of Qualy, Who Carries The Film Complety. With Her Husky Voice, Witty One-Liners, and nonchalant Charm, She Turns Honey Into A Figure Who Constantly Punctures The Clichés Systy Herself.”
Het Parool – Gives No Stars
“After drive-away dolls , Ethan Coen and his wife, co-writer, and editor tricia cooke, return with a lesbian version of the b-movie with qualley in the lead role. Private detective honey becomes entangled in a kersty hersty hersty, hensty, hh sterny, henstery, henstery hersty hersty after her stern, henstery after re sect. “
“Honey Don’t! primarily presents itself as a game with neonoir, but it remains stuck in a stylistic gimmick. The image of a gorgeous detective in high heels in the vast desert might be stimulating, but it contributes little in terms of content. Also, the provocative details—a joke about menstrual blood on white fabric, Honey cleaning sex toys with rubber gloves and mountains of dish soap, a sex-addicted priest—seem primarily intended to shock.”
NRC – Two Stars
“Usually, honey drives in a convertible from sex joke to sex joke while occasionally picking up a clue, until the movie sauddenly ends extremely unsatisfyingly. Almost every scene falls hay-fedor. “Macaroni.” A man asks for a blowjob duration a drug deal and is then run over and dragged behind a car. “
“The Texts are often Too MediOcre. Take the following interaction. Pastor Devlin Says to Honey:” You are fascinating! ” Honey replies: “And you harbor” the riddle tattooed on my ass. ” It Seems Like a Joke, it has the tempo of a joke, but is a joke really being made here?
De Volkskrant – Two Stars
“Honey Don’t! winks at film noir, with the irresistible Qualley as the detective. She runs her business in a dusty town, where Chris Evans as a (largely naked) pastor runs a sex sect and where she enters into a hot relationship with a butch police officer with daddy issues (Aubrey Plaza).”
“There is, or course, also a case, but she doesn’tn’t Solve it anyway. The fact that and cooke are clearly not interested in concluding the initiated Storylines is humorous, but this aimless llusion of a plot ultimately making bore” boring it boring. “