“The Roses” begins in a marriage therapist's office, where Theo Rose has something interesting to say about his longtime wife, Ivy: “I would rather live with her than a wolf.” That's especially interesting because the question the therapist posed was: What are 10 things you love about each other?

After a few minutes of blistering barbs back and forth — Ivy suggests that one good thing about her husband is “he has arms” — the therapist is appalled and resigned. “I see so much resentment, I don't think you have the capacity to fix your problems,” she tells them.

There are dark marriage comedies and then there's “The Roses,” an escalating hatefest that, by the time a loaded gun comes out, all the fun has been sucked out. It's hard tonally to go from microaggressions to the burning of someo

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