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

Linda Holmes · Saturday at 1:13 PM

Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch star in <em>The Roses,</em> a reimagining of the 1989 film <em>The War of the Roses, </em>based on the 1981 novel by Warren Adler.

The 1989 film The War of the Roses was a nihilistic story of a dissolving marriage. A new reimagining starring Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch plays like a standard studio comedy.

(Image credit: Jaap Buitendijk)

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

Linda Holmes

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