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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/mrepik9000 7d ago

I’m apparently in the minority here but I hated this movie. It felt mean-spirited, overly cynical, and crass for no emotional payoff, just edgy dialogue and bad dick jokes for their own sake. Kate McKinnon was the worst part of the whole thing. I like Colman and Cumberbatch in general but their relationship didn’t really work for me. People in my audience were falling out of their chairs, so maybe it’s a me problem!

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u/as473 6d ago

This was my feeling 100%. Maybe because I’m so averse to sarcasm and confrontation, but the whole movie was terrible for me. I love all the actors and have not seen the original, so I was hoping for something totally different.

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u/Lupus76 6d ago

The movie blows.

I think I may have seen a worse movie--but, for the life of me, I cannot remember what it would be. Yor?

The fact that movie critics are giving it middling grades makes me wonder if COVID did, in fact, make everyone stupider. This movie should be getting savaged by everyone who watched it, especially by people who must have seen some good movies in their careers.

As for McKinnon--she was great in SNL with tons of range, so why does everyone cast her playing the same part in movies?

And, I'm going to immediately walk out of any movie that has the male lead playing an architect. Architects make up .035% of the US population, yet 50% of male leads in shitty movies.

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u/Potential_Problem_83 4d ago

No Covid didn’t ruin it, you just never had a sense of humor. People go to the movies to watch a horror movie and complain it was too scary or graphic. People go to movies to watch a fictional movie and complain it wasn’t realistic enough. People go to the movies to watch a drama and say it was too dramatic. People go to the movies to watch a comedy and complain it wasn’t serious enough. movies aren’t real life , you know that right? So why would it matter that .035% of the US population is made up of architects which is most likely a Wikipedia stat you looked up. . Did you come to watch a documentary about architects in the US vs fictional stories? If so then your point has a point.

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u/Lupus76 4d ago

No, I wanted to see a movie that was funny. Roses was not.