Death of a Unicorn (2025) review

Widowed attorney Elliot Kintner (Paul Rudd) takes his teenage daughter Ridley (Jenna Ortega) on a business trip to the estate of sickly Odell Leopold (Richard E. Grant) in order to finalize a contract and on the way there they accidentally slam into a young unicorn with their car - when Odell realizes the dead animal possesses curative powers (it heals his cancer) he makes plans to market it to the medical field but the unicorn's parents want revenge.  Despite the distinctive cast - which also includes Téa Leoni as Odell's wife, Will Poulter as his drugged-out son and Anthony Carrigan as the mistreated butler - this is a failure: it's flimsy as a "dark fantasy movie," the special effects are distractingly bad, and the two "points" it's attempting to make, that the wealthy tend to be ethically corrupt and that nature needs to be protected, can be gleaned about ten minutes in (and understood by most middle school kids).  For the rest of the time, it just hits the same beat repeatedly and has little else to offer.  At least Carrigan's servile character escapes unscathed....