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The Roses
2025 105 min United Kingdom, United States of America R 18+
★6.6
Comedy, Drama, Romance
Director: Jay Roach
🎭 Based on
«The War of the Roses»
byWarren Adler
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Description
Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy and Theo: successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing – as Theo's career nosedives while Ivy's own ambitions take off, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentment ignites.
Budget:
$30M
US Gross:
$15.3M
Worldwide:
$51.99M
Starring
Olivia Colman
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Benedict Cumberbatch
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Kate McKinnon
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Key opinion
The Roses is a polished but divisive reimagining of the 1989 classic that shines through the performances of Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch. While many appreciate the film’s sharp, witty dialogue and stylistic choices, others find the shift in tone—from the original’s dark, chaotic edge to a softer, more conventional farce—to be a significant disappointment.
| Acting | Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch deliver compelling, nuanced performances that anchor the central marital conflict. | |
| Production | The production design, particularly the meticulously crafted dream house, serves as a visually elegant foundation for the story. | |
| Screenplay | The dialogue is praised for its sharp, witty, and rapid-fire delivery, effectively updating the source material into a screwball-style comedy. | |
| Originality | The film's romantic and professional role-reversal premise offers a clever and inventive hook for exploring modern marital dynamics. | |
| Acting | The chemistry between the leads is highly debated, with some viewers finding it electric and others describing it as absent or mismatched. | |
| Adaptation | The tonal shift from the original film's dark, gritty cynicism to a lighter, more polite farce is viewed by some as a failure to capture the necessary bite, while others embrace the change in pace. | |
| Pacing | The pacing is criticized for feeling uneven, with some finding the abrupt swings between reflection and farcical action to be tiring or disjointed. |