It's not hard to see that this film is aiming for satire of religious hatred and warfare, it's fairly obvious from the opening minutes we're heading in that direction and thanks in no small part to some gorgeous 2D animation the film looks amazing.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 5, 2024

Employs kiddie-fodder conventions of the “aw, how cute” variety to subversive, startling effect.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 13, 2023

Those who think they're in for a fun evening of gory shenanigans, Happy Tree Friends style, will not be disappointed. But they may be caught off guard by the film's excellent art direction, its building of dread and the telling of a unique mythology.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Mar 24, 2023

Unicorn Wars is like Care Bears meets Full Metal Jacket.

| Mar 18, 2023

The story imagines itself smart but is ultimately nothing special.

| Original Score: 1/5 | Mar 14, 2023

The lunatics haven’t just taken over the asylum in Alberto Vázquez’s sophomore feature – they’ve taken over the world! Occasionally flawed, mostly fantastic and, above all, completely unique.

| Mar 13, 2023

If [Vásquez's] work suggests that he doesn’t feel too optimistic about the state of modern existence and its future, we can at least feel better that he’s bringing something worthwhile to cinema’s current era of flattened and soul-dead animated art.

| Mar 11, 2023

Unicorn Wars is a captivating film full of depth, shocking ideologies, and vivid animation...

| Mar 11, 2023

Even this early in the year, it seems unfathomable that another release could dethrone “Unicorn Wars” as the most uncompromisingly audacious animated film of 2023.

| Mar 10, 2023

While “Unicorn Wars” undoubtedly indulges [its] impulses—think cartoon genitalia and bears hanging themselves in despair—it thankfully also has more going on.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 10, 2023

It's also an unforgettable R-rated animated experience that metaphorically tells mankind's own mythological tales under the guise of cutesy characters to truly get to the heart of how absurd our generations of hostility and bloodshed have always been.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Mar 10, 2023

Vasquez masterfully contrasts the cuteness of teddy bears and unicorns with the horror of warfare.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Mar 10, 2023

[T]he movie's aims become lost...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Mar 10, 2023

Subversively funny. It's like Full Metal Jacket with teddy bears.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 9, 2023

“Unicorn Wars” is forcefully provocative, trying too hard to push buttons at the cost of more nuanced explorations of masculinity and power.

| Mar 9, 2023

The craftsmanship is as impressive as Vázquez’s talent for Trojan Horsing metaphors about the human condition into a movie about teddy bears knifing unicorns.

| Original Score: 8.6/10 | Mar 8, 2023

Registers with creative visuals, strong voice work, and commitment to the concept, with Vazquez marching forward with this decidedly violent and wholly bizarre feature.

| Original Score: B- | Mar 7, 2023

This animated epic is a surreal cinematic experience that contrasts the cuteness of teddy bears with the horror of war.

| Original Score: B | Mar 7, 2023

Vázquez delights in drenching his adorable protagonists in blood, urine, puss, and sociopathy.

| Feb 2, 2023

We’d particularly recommend Unicorn Wars, a sort of apocalyptic Care Bears vs. My Little Pony saga from Spanish comic book artist Alberto Vazquez...

| Feb 1, 2023