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Ethan Coen's 2025 film, Honey Don't!, feels like an old-school B-movie due to its rustic aesthetic and generally shallow dialogue and characters, all intentional. The plot revolves around a private investigator named Honey O'Donahue, who becomes embroiled in a dangerous serial murder plot when a potential client dies in a mysterious car accident in Bakersfield, California. Overall, Honey Don't! lacks much depth or excitement, but it still manages to be a charming film thanks to its touch of dark humor and excellent performances. Honey Don't! opens with a woman climbing down a steep, rocky hillside to reach the site of a recent car accident, rushing to tame the scene before the police arrive. As recorded sermons from a local church still play on the sound system of the crashed and overturned car, the woman approaches and grabs the driver, who appears to be dead. He then removes a ring from the finger of the deceased driver, who is also a woman, and quickly leaves the...