The Roses

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The Roses

2025,

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Drama

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Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy (Olivia Colman) and Theo (Benedict Cumberbatch): 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. The Roses is a reimagining of the 1989 classic film The War of the Roses, based on the novel by Warren Adler.

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The Roses' blend of broad comedy and dark satire makes for an uneasy marriage, although watching Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch trade barbs is a treat onto itself.

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Wendy Ide

Observer (UK)

Oct 7, 2025

Colman and Cumberbatch are sublimely well matched. We adore them as a couple almost as much as we enjoy them as the bitterest of foes.

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Stephen Romei

The Australian

Sep 5, 2025

3.5/5

The dazzling script is thespian heaven for the stars, Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch, who put a wicked British spin on this remake of Danny DeVito’s 1989 movie The War of the Roses...

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Maxwell Rabb

Chicago Reader

Sep 5, 2025

The pacing switches too suddenly between vigor and slackness, leaving the film without the propulsion its absurd premise demands, causing the conflict to drag on.

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Kathryn Reklis

The Christian Century

Sep 4, 2026

Despite the characters’ initial assertions of love and the film’s conventional plot points, it was hard to see why marriage seemed compelling to either of them.

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Vera Wylde

Council of Geeks

Apr 5, 2026

It's pretty solid... right up until the end.

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David Nusair

Reel Film Reviews

Jan 8, 2026

2.5/4

...familiar subject matter that is, for the most part, employed to watchable (albeit increasingly erratic) effect...

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Jay Roach

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Benedict Cumberbatch

Theo

Olivia Colman

Ivy

Andy Samberg

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Synopsis

Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy (Olivia Colman) and Theo (Benedict Cumberbatch): 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. The Roses is a reimagining of the 1989 classic film The War of the Roses, based on the novel by Warren Adler.

Director: Jay Roach
Producer: Jay Roach, Michelle Graham, Adam Ackland, Leah Clarke, Ed Sinclair, Tom Carver
Screenwriter: Tony McNamara
Distributor: Searchlight Pictures
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Aug 29, 2025, Limited

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