DEATH OF A UNICORN (2025)
A talented cast, but nobody is going to mistake this for the best work of anyone involved. It can't quite commit to being either a sharp capitalist critique or a bad-taste gore-fest, so it gestures in those directions (with occasionally entertaining results), but ultimately settles for being a "bad dad redemption arc"-type story which fell pretty flat for me. I also find CGI animals (and monsters) distractingly fake-looking, and that's a lot of what there is to look at here: the film could have benefitted hugely by having some practical effects wizardry up its sleeve.
A ★★½ review of Death of a Unicorn (2025)
A talented cast, but nobody is going to mistake this for the best work of anyone involved. It can’t quite commit to being either a sharp capitalist critique or a bad-taste gore-fest, so it gestures in those directions (with occasionally entertaining results), but ultimately settles for being a “bad dad redemption arc”-type story which fell pretty flat for me. I also find CGI animals (and monsters) distractingly fake-looking, and that’s a lot of what there is to look at here: the film could have benefitted hugely by having some practical effects wizardry up its sleeve.
jbushnell
