{"id":166417,"date":"2025-08-22T12:05:16","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T12:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/166417\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T12:05:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T12:05:16","slug":"the-movie-stream-eenie-meanie-on-hulu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/166417\/","title":{"rendered":"The Movie,’ stream ‘Eenie Meanie’ on Hulu"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hello, Yahoo readers! My name is Brett Arnold<\/a>, film critic and longtime Yahoo editor, and I\u2019m back with another edition of Trust Me, I Watch Everything<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

A pair of new releases from widely respected filmmakers top the list this week as Ron Howard’s Eden and Ethan Coen’s Honey Don’t debut in theaters nationwide. It’s the second movie in as many weeks<\/a> starring Sydney Sweeney!<\/p>\n

At home, the latest Mission: Impossible finally makes its way to the small screen, as does Brad Pitt’s F1: The Movie, both of which are big-budget blockbusters that did, and are still doing, very well in theaters.<\/p>\n

And on streaming services you’re likely already paying for, a new crime-heist comedy of sorts starring Samara Weaving called Eenie Meanie hits Hulu, and an underrated indie gem Tornado is on AMC+, which offers a 7-day free trial.<\/p>\n

Read on, because there\u2019s something here for everyone!<\/p>\n

\ud83c\udfa5 What to watch in theaters<\/strong>My recommendation: <\/strong>Eden<\/p>\n

Why you should watch it:<\/strong> The latest film from beloved filmmaker Ron Howard is unlike anything the actor turned director has made before. If I hadn’t known going in that he directed it, I never would’ve guessed, which is an exciting thing to say about a director in his 70s. Howard can still surprise us! Yet a populist crowd-pleaser this is not.<\/p>\n

Eden is based on, or at least inspired by, the wild true story of a group of disillusioned outsiders in the late 1930s who abandon post-World War I Europe in search of a new beginning. Settling on a remote uninhabited island, their utopian dream quickly unravels as they discover that the greatest threat isn\u2019t the brutal climate or deadly wildlife, but each other.<\/p>\n

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Ana de Armas in Eden (Courtesy of Vertical Entertainment\/Everett Collection)<\/p>\n

The cast of Eden is chock-full of the hottest actors in Hollywood: Sydney Sweeney, Ana De Armas and Vanessa Kirby share the screen alongside Jude Law and Daniel Br\u00fchl. Law plays a German doctor and self-styled philosopher who is the first to set foot on the island. The others all follow because, unbeknownst to Law, the letters that he’s been writing have been published in newspapers, and people have been following his exploits. He’s quite pretentious and has grand ambitions of changing the world and believes the manifesto he’s writing is the thing to do just that.<\/p>\n

He has no interest in helping others make the island their home, and immediately starts trying to sabotage the newcomers, a husband and wife played by Br\u00fchl and Sweeney. It’s not long before a baroness (De Armas) shows up with plans to build a hotel there and make a fortune off tourism, wielding her sexuality as a sort of weapon. That’s when things spiral out of control.<\/p>\n

The island experiment becomes a sort of microcosm speedrun of a society rising and falling, as all the different parties jockey for power and control. There are shocks and surprises throughout, and at least one sex scenes that’s stranger than it is sexy. I am again struck by the fact that most of my joy from this nasty little movie comes from the knowledge that the inoffensive Howard helmed it.<\/p>\n

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Vanessa Kirby in Eden (Courtesy of Vertical Entertainment\/Everett Collection)<\/p>\n

Eden is absolutely worth seeing in a theater, a fate that his last feature film, the sensational Thirteen Lives never receieved as it was shunted to Prime Video in 2022. That movie would’ve cleaned up at the Oscars had it had a real release; instead, now you’re likely hearing about it for the first time in the closing paragraph of a review for a different movie. Anyway, Eden plays out like the most twisted episode of Survivor ever. Outwit, outplay, outlast!<\/p>\n

What other critics are saying:<\/strong> The response is totally mixed. Variety’s Owen Gleiberman<\/a> writes, “For Howard, the film sure is different. Yet there\u2019s another word for it \u2014 the word is terrible.” Chase Hutchinson at TheWrap<\/a> dug it, calling it a solid thriller from top to bottom.<\/p>\n

How to watch: <\/strong>Eden is now in theaters nationwide<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Get tickets<\/a><\/p>\n

Bonus not-quite-a-recommendation:<\/strong> Honey Don’t!<\/p>\n

Why you should maybe skip it:<\/strong> Drive-Away Dolls was always pitched as the first of three movies in a “lesbian B-movie” trilogy <\/a>that Ethan Coen, half of the Oscar-winning Coen Brothers duo, would be making with his wife Tricia Cooke instead of his brother Joel. Honey Don’t!, the second film,\u00a0is here to make good on that promise. Sadly, if you didn’t dig Drive-Away Dolls, there’s really nothing in this one that’s going to change your mind. Even if you did enjoy Dolls, as I did, Honey Don’t! is a serious case of diminishing returns.<\/p>\n

Margaret Qualley again stars, this time as Honey O’Donahue, a private investigator tasked with solving a woman’s murder, unraveling a mystery that involves some sort of religious cult. Qualley is terrific in the lead, as are Aubrey Plaza and Charlie Day in their supporting roles, but Chris Evans, who should run away with the movie, is hamstrung by the terribly weak script, despite giving it his all.<\/p>\n

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Aubrey Plaza and Margaret Qualley in Honey Don’t! (Courtesy of Focus Features\/Everett Collection)<\/p>\n

The craziest thing about Honey Don’t! is the way it just sort of fizzles out instead of building to a satisfying third-act conclusion.<\/p>\n

The detective story in Honey Don’t! is flat and uninteresting and while its obsession with sex is admirable in a landscape of movies that don’t care about it anymore, it’s all too scattershot and messy to muster much excitement about or get a real handle on. It’s a baffling and disappointing experience, especially if you’re a Coen brothers fan like me. Drive-Away Dolls was a fun-enough silly diversion; Honey Don’t! is a reminder that diversions aren’t meant to last forever.<\/p>\n

What other critics are saying:<\/strong> They’re split right down the middle! Nick Schager at the Daily Beast<\/a> calls it the worst movie of the year, correctly assessing that “Coen and Cooke are so uninterested in plotting that they don\u2019t develop or intertwine their multiple threads.” The AP’s Lindsey Bahr<\/a>, however, writes that it’s “gory, unapologetically sexual, quippy and dark. It also clocks in at under 90 minutes \u2014 they knew just when to get out.”<\/p>\n

How to watch: <\/strong>Honey Don’t! is now in theaters nationwide<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Get tickets<\/a><\/p>\n

But that’s not all…<\/strong><\/p>\n