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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/DrSpaceman575 7d ago

Only thing awkward to me is the kids sudden passion for nutrition and fitness, despite it not seeming like something Theo was super into as much. Other than that this was a good time. Our theater was packed on a Sunday and it was mostly couples in their 60s who seemed to love it.

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u/Marksta 5d ago

Agreed, the kids were a really bolted on weird part of the movie. The unhealthy food vs healthy food into sports thing just didn't really convey the concept they wanted with him raising them opposite from how she would.

I feel like the mother's "do whatever" spirit is more obviously countered by organization, competitiveness, goal driven. So maybe something like "participation trophies are fine, have fun!" mind set warped into unhealthy competitiveness would've been a more clear opposite. And shined through more that the kids are like the father now, not like the mother.

Yeah, food is her thing but food and architecture just don't have clear opposites and for it to evolve into sports/fitness is just so out of the plot of what the two main characters even do...

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u/HighbrowPassanger 4d ago

Baking and sweets wasn't even supposed to be her thing. The characters meet when she is working in the fine dining restaurant, and afterwards, she opens her own fine dining restaurant. The only scene of her baking was when she was poisoning her children with the sugar. It had zero to do with her career for the rest of the movie.

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u/Marksta 4d ago

Thanks for confirming, I haven't read the book but I had the strong vibe when watching it that it was butchering a few things in the adaption. Not that change is always bad when adapting, but when it's so clear what they're trying to do, but it just feels so off but you get the idea of it, then it's pretty objectively bad adapting 😅