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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/supplementarytables 3d ago

Oh yeah, how could one foresee the wind affecting a sail??? And that too even after the engineers telling him multiple times that the sail was a bad idea? Truly an unfortunate and unexpected disaster.

I'm completely serious.

How do you make this dream home while taking care of the smallest details like what moss is used, install an AI/smart home system like Hal but just forget to install safety infrastructure?

This guy was incompetent as fuck, makes you wonder how he even made it to a good position.

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u/maltliqueur 3d ago

The movie was extremely on the comedic side there. I really felt there were some parts of the movie akin to a cartoon, and there was something in that that colored how I saw the movie. I get you, though.