movie review

THE ROSES

Running time: 105 minutes. Rated R (drugs, sexual content, and language throughout). In theaters.

Bickering couples can be delicious to watch.

Emma Thompson and Kenneth Branagh’s Beatrice and Benedick lit a sexy match in “Much Ado About Nothing.” And Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton boozily ripped each other to pieces in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?”

And then there’s Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman’s “till death do us part” duo in “The Roses.” Many, many rungs down from their predecessors, this domestic blitz is weak and witless.

The crabby characters are an unappetizing and cringey pair that would push a person to find any excuse to sprint out of an awkward dinner party — or, I wish, an eerily silent movie theater — at the earliest possible conve

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