No one hates you like someone who used to love you. 'The Roses' misses that

The decision to call the new adaptation of the Warren Adler novel The War of the Roses simply The Roses is fitting. Where that novel, and its 1989 film adaptation starring Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas, are about a divorce steeped in hatred, the new film, starring Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch , is about a marriage that is loving underneath it all, even as it grows combative. And that change, while it perhaps makes the story more pleasing and human, saps it of its bite.

Here, Colman plays Ivy, a chef who meets Theo (Cumberbatch), an architect who wanders into the kitchen while she's working. They have instant chemistry, and before you know it, they have relocated to the coast of California and are married with young twins. He is working to design a new museum, and she