Review: ‘The Roses’ Is a Prickly Delight

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We’ve all heard the statistic that in America, nearly half of first marriages end in divorce. A statistic, though, doesn’t tell the whole story. Why do marriages fall apart? How can love turn so sour? Enter The Roses , a heady mix of mundane reality and heightened fantasy that charts the decline of Theo and Ivy Rose’s marriage from petty resentments to zany sabotage. Yet as we watch this couple fall apart, we can’t help falling in love with them ourselves, rooting for them to hold on — and that, it turns out, is the greatest trick the movie pulls. Here, divorce isn’t inevitable. And the sharpest thorn turns out to be the hope that maybe love can survive marriage after all.

To the surprise

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