Honey Don't: Sizzles, Before Fizzling
Like Fourth of July fireworks, the film Honey Don’t is colorful and fun to look at, delivering many bangs (sex and guns!) for your buck before quietly fading out.

Talia Ryder (born August 16, 2002) is an American stage and film actress. She made her feature film debut as Skylar in Eliza Hittman's critically acclaimed independent drama Never Rarely Sometimes Always (2020), earning her nominations for an Independent Spirit Award and a Critics' Choice Movie Award. She has since led the Netflix romantic drama Hello, Goodbye, and Everything in Between (2022) and the surrealist road film The Sweet East (2023). Ryder is also known for her supporting roles in the musical drama West Side Story (2021), the teen comedy Do Revenge (2022), and the comedy-drama Dumb Money (2023). On stage, she acted in the Broadway musical Matilda the Musical (2015–2016) and the Off-Broadway play How to Defend Yourself (2023). Description above from the Wikipedia article Talia Ryder, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Like Fourth of July fireworks, the film Honey Don’t is colorful and fun to look at, delivering many bangs (sex and guns!) for your buck before quietly fading out.
It's sexy, regardless of what else is going on.
Honey Don't! is a chaotic queer noir that's part detective story, part midnight movie madness. Margaret Qualley is fantastic as the wise-cracking private eye Honey, with Aubrey Plaza and Chris Evans adding their own dry humor to the mix. The mystery itself is pretty loose, but the film makes up for it with crackling sexual tension, weird side characters, and razor-sharp dialogue. It's messy and uneven, but in the best possible way.
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“It's not ghosts. It's not supernatural. It's... It's America. And it's everywhere.”
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