Film Review: “Drive-Away Dolls”

Few clever moments can’t salvage solo Coen brother project 

BFFs Jamie (Margaret Qualley, l.) and Marian (Geraldine Viswanathan) run into some trouble.

Following in his big brother Joel’s footsteps, Ethan Coen steps outside the pair’s successful filmmaking partnership with Drive-Away Dolls, his first solo narrative feature. Unfortunately, Ethan doesn’t do as well as his brother did with his 2021 award-winning The Tragedy of Macbeth. Drive-Away Dolls probably won’t win any awards, but it’s a serviceable, if mostly forgettable, attempt at a retro, low-brow comedy.

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