Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy (Academy Award Winner Olivia Colman) and Theo (Academy Award Nominee Benedict Cumberbatch): successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing – as Theo’s career nosedives while Ivy’s own ambitions take off, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentment ignites. The Roses is a reimagining of the 1989 classic film The War of the Roses, based on the novel by Warren Adler.
Slashfilm – “The Roses is the kind of movie you should be seeing with a crowd, even if it doesn’t seem to demand a big screen experience. See it with your parents. See it with your significant other. Just see it.” (full review here)
Little White Lies – “If the film doesn’t radically deepen the conversation around the gender politics or financial intricacies of marriage, it does find new textures in the way ambition corrodes intimacy.” (full review here)
