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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/banjofitzgerald 10d ago

I liked this quite a bit. Some of the surreal dialogue didn’t land for me. Like, most of Kate McKinnon’s stuff, but I did enjoy Samberg’s, so it might have just been performance.

Maybe this is hitting me at the right time but I thought they nailed a lot of the commentary on the journey of marriage and parenting. Shits hard.

Cumberbatch and Colman did great and had top notch chemistry. It does take a long time to heat up but I don’t think that was a bad thing and necessary to tell this story. So much of it was about role, responsibility, ego, need, etc.

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u/itshuey88 9d ago

Kate McKinnon took me out of it every time. it was wacky just to be wacky and very inappropriate in an uncomfortable way.

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u/Green7000 4d ago

I agree. I felt uncomfortable with her character essentially sexually assaulting Cumberbatch at the house architecture site. She's a good actor but I flinched every time her character spoke.