Film Review – Drive-Away Dolls

Joel and Ethan Coen are on a break. Maybe it’s a permanent one, who knows at this point, but the filmmaking siblings responsible for some incredible features during their decades of collaboration are currently operating solo. Joel went highbrow, taking command of 2021’s arty, stark “The Tragedy of Macbeth,” clearly out to flex his wings with a wildly different creative challenge. Ethan’s more interested in making a Coen Brothers picture, with “Drive-Away Dolls” basically tracing over tonal lines the siblings have previously drawn. It’s a dryly comedic, slightly madcap take on lovers-on-the-run cinema, and whatever Joel brought to the partnership is clearly missing from the endeavor. A labored exercise in zaniness, “Drive-Away Dolls” isn’t charming or funny, finding Ethan unable to cough up that old Coen magic in a movie that, well, he’s already made several times before. Read the rest at Blu-ray.com