Technically, Ethan Coen is only half of the Coen brothers, and the easiest read on the movies he and his brother Joel have made since going their separate ways after 2018’s The Ballad of Buster Scruggs is as an indication of what each brought to their former—or,

Ethan Coen, working with his wife, Tricia Cooke, endows this neo-noir comedy, about a lesbian detective, with dazzle but little more.

Ethan Coen's Honey Don't!, which stars Margaret Qualley, fails to impress at the box office during its opening weekend, but it's still an improvement.