The strength of the performances are what add plausibility to each required plot point, so by the end, so the romantic pair are fully formed individuals with genuine hang-ups and yearning.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 25, 2025

A sweet and charming, albeit familiar, romance that overstays its welcome with an overly long runtime. A violent third act twist, however, essentially derails the movie and nearly ruins it.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 25, 2025

Not particularly groundbreaking, Unicorns takes an eventful route to a predictable destination. It’s a plot you can see coming once the main characters are in place.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 23, 2025

There’s hope and joy to be found here along with passion and genuine heat, giving us a gay romance to treasure for years to come.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jul 21, 2025

Sensitive and endearing portrait of one of those relationships that are rarely seen on screen, marked by particularly competent performances and enhanced by impressive choreography performances. [Full review in Spanish]

Full Review | Jul 21, 2025

Unicorns has... plenty of crowdpleasing energy. Still, I couldn’t help finding it awfully reminiscent of numerous past movies with a similar central dynamic, and thought a story whose beats are this predictable didn’t need a full two hours to play out.

Full Review | Jul 18, 2025

“Unicorns” reminds that the ability to transform and cross borders, whether physical, mental, or spiritual, is always proximate, oppressive systems, antiquated thinking, and insecurity be damned.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 18, 2025

What could've been a film about a character learning to find her own truth through gender experimentation and self-actualization becomes a whole journey for another character, one who is far less interesting and likable.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/10 | Jul 18, 2025

We meet two people at a compelling crossroads in their respective lives in this tender and heartfelt romantic drama, but the relationship that brings them together feels too contrived to resonate as intended.

Full Review | Jul 18, 2025

The third act ... appears to exist solely to let as many obstacles and complications as possible emerge or resurface.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/4 | Jul 18, 2025

The contrivances are of the eye-rolling variety. And in most instances, they would signal the death knell. But Hardy and Patel sell it to the max, including the swoon-worthy climax.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jul 17, 2025

Hardy peels back the layers to reveal Luke's sexual awakening so viscerally that it's easier to overlook the film's narrative shortcuts.

Full Review | Jul 17, 2025

Newcomer Jason Patel brings an open heart to the role of Aysha, dancing between vulnerability and seductive magnetism with subtle shifts in physicality.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Jul 17, 2025

an LGBTQ film for hopeless romantics, but others may find it frustratingly simplistic, raising issues only to jettison them.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | Jul 15, 2025

Unicorns is an entirely heartfelt queer romance movie, with little fanfare or pressure to use labels and a realness about the characters' struggles.

Full Review | Original Score: 9/10 | Jul 15, 2025

A well-acted, tender, unflinching and engrossing romance.

Full Review | Jul 15, 2025

If the film was extended, it could easily be one of the best films of the year. As it is, Unicorns is still an extremely moving, delightful love story.

Full Review | Original Score: B+ | Jul 14, 2025

The chemistry between its two leads allows Unicorns to feel like a shaggy fairy tale, but its forced optimism sidesteps major identity issues which should have been more deftly examined with a two-hour running time.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 9, 2025

Considering the subject, Unicorns surprisingly avoids more in-depth examinations of identity in lieu of a mostly light exploration of the connections we can make when we stay true to ourselves.

Full Review | Original Score: 2.5/5 | Jul 9, 2025

If the film's focus on the particular kind of oppression that queer South Asian people suffer is sadly too rare in cinema, its narrative progression is conventional and unadventurous... with more emphasis on the romance than the comedy.

Full Review | Nov 22, 2024