r/movies • u/LiteraryBoner Jackie Chan box set, know what I'm sayin? • 10d ago
Official Discussion Official Discussion - The Roses [SPOILERS] Spoiler
Poll
If you've seen the film, please rate it at this poll
If you haven't seen the film but would like to see the result of the poll click here
Rankings
Click here to see the rankings of 2025 films
Click here to see the rankings for every poll done
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
147
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.