Moments into The Roses, screenwriter Tony McNamara (The Great, Poor Things, The Favourite) and Jay Roach’s (Trumbo, Meet the Parents, the Austin Powers trilogy) remake of The War of the Roses, Danny DeVito’s 1989 masterpiece of marital disharmony, the titular characters, Ivy (Olivia Colman) and Theo Rose (Benedict Cumberbatch), exchange witheringly caustic barbs aimed squarely at each other while their shocked, soon-to-be-ex-therapist gasps in amazement. The newly bewildered therapist declares their marriage null and void, the outcome of almost decades of accreted resentments, but neither Theo nor Ivy accept either her diagnosis or her prognosis, briefly turning their vitriol towards their now ex-therapist. It’s an error in judgment that foreshadows the long, not quite meandering descent of their once happy marriage into a literal...
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