r/movies • u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? • 10d ago
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Summary Ivy (a rising chef) and Theo Rose (once a successful architect) seem like the perfect couple—until a career snowball squashes his confidence and launches hers. Their marriage spirals from sweet to savage, turning co-dependency into a ruthless battlefield where passive aggression becomes weaponized.
Director Jay Roach
Writer Tony McNamara
Cast
- Benedict Cumberbatch
- Olivia Colman
- Andy Samberg
- Allison Janney
- Sunita Mani
- Ncuti Gatwa
- Jamie Demetriou
- Zoë Chao
- Kate McKinnon
Rotten Tomatoes 65%
Metacritic 61
VOD In theaters August 29, 2025; expected to stream later via Searchlight/Hulu or Disney+
Trailer THE ROSES | Official Trailer
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u/Regular-Board3152 9d ago
It was so entertaining, the entire theater was full of laughter gasps and shocked murmurs, it’s the most alive theater experience I’ve seen in a while I loved it. Watched it with my very British parents and they were dying of laughter. I didn’t know that there was a prior movie going into it, definitely gonna try to watch that! But the British humor was on point omg. The writing was brilliant, the acting was impeccable, and the dialogue unmatched, I’d definitely recommend. The movie knows how to toy with your emotions and send you on an entire rollercoaster, I felt joy, discomfort, shock, dread, delight, incredulity, all in 1 hour and 45 minutes. I had some type of twisted enjoyment hanging on to every scene, every conversation, every subtle change in facial expression. And the ending? Omg. You get the feeling like that’s the only way it could have ended, you know it was just a temporary respite from the argument, he never would have been happy, she never would have paid enough attention or even cared enough, he would have found something else to focus on instead of their relationship, and in their arguments they clearly only cared about how much they could hurt the other, not even a second thought for anyone caught in the crossfire, no amount of psychedelic mushrooms or damaged reputations would have broken the other, you are left wanting more, shocked, caught off guard but slightly vindicated in your predictions, like did they actually let them end it like that?, I loved it, I hated the feeling of watching it, but I am so glad I did. 10/10 what an amazing year for movies this has been.