The Roses

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Kränkningar och klichéer laddar det äktenskapliga sammanbrottet i ”The Roses”, en nytolkning av boken som blev den hysteriska 80-talsfilmen ”Den vilda jakten på lyckan”. Trots stjärnor, insta-glamour och enstaka lustigheter faller det hela sönder i takt med äktenskapet, skriver Kerstin Gezelius.

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FILMRECENSION. Pilarna är doppade i rent gift när Benedict Cumberbatch och Olivia Colman förklarar krig mot varandra.

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Olivia Colman och Benedict Cumberbatch har ett extraordinärt äktenskapstycke som äkta makar i ”The Roses”.

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”The Roses” är en underbart vass och underhållande komedi om det äktenskapliga oket. Olivia Colman och Benedict Cumberbatch briljerar fullständigt i detta syrligt satiriska mästerverk till film.

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Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy and Theo: 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.

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Roger Ebert

You can’t say that 'The Roses' wimps out at the end. It doesn’t. It has a great ending. But it’s a great ending for a different movie about a different couple.

rogerebert.com/reviews/the-roses-benedict-cumberbatch-olivia-colman-film-review-2025

BBC Culture

The Roses itself is a smart, wild, entertaining mix of droll British humour and glossy Hollywood film-making.

bbc.com/culture/article/20250822-the-roses-review

Deadline

The casting here is perfection itself, with Cumberbatch and Colman bickering back and forth with all the drawing-room style… Both show the kind of sophisticated flair neither has gotten to demonstrate in full force on screen much before, and they are splendid — going for it, yes, but throwing subtle punches along the way before the final round.

deadline.com/2025/08/the-roses-review-benedict-cumberbatch-olivia-colman-remake-1236496435/

Variety

Without that spark, Roach’s ‘Roses’ is a bit of a misfire, at least compared with the scorching passion we felt between Turner and Douglas...

variety.com/2025/film/reviews/the-roses-review-benedict-cumberbatch-olivia-colman-1236497711/

The Guardian

Colman and Cumberbatch are acting black-belts and they are never anything other than watchable, but as they shout and wince and snap and zing their way through the dialogue, it’s difficult to believe that they really love each other; and then later really hate each other. The film loses its nerve on this latter point.

theguardian.com/film/2025/aug/25/the-roses-review-olivia-colman-and-benedict-cumberbatch-remake

USA Today

Colman and Cumberbatch enjoy such an easy, intoxicating energy together that, even when they’re navigating periods of 'sporadic hatred,' they capture an unspoken understanding that other couples ... will never understand.

usatoday.com/story/entertainment/movies/2025/08/25/the-roses-movie-review/85802952007/

The Hollywood Reporter

You couldn’t ask for a more skilled demonstration of how it should be done than the deliciously withering repartee lobbed back and forth by Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman as Theo and Ivy Rose, whose union spirals from bliss into mutual destruction in this dark comedy about marital collapse.

hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-reviews/the-roses-review-benedict-cumberbatch-olivia-colman-1236351889/

Flickering Myth

Its final act comes alive, eliciting mean-spirited cackles... but for the most part, The Roses is disappointingly trying to be little more than a modern update, sticking too close to the original.

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