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

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Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch star in The Roses, a reimagining of the 1989 film The War of the Roses, based on the 1981 novel by Warren Adler. (Jaap Buitendijk | Searchlight Pictures)The decision to call the new adaptation of the Warren Adler novel The War of the Roses simply The Roses is fitting. Here, Colman plays Ivy, a chef who meets Theo (Cumberbatch), an architect who wanders into the kitchen while she’s working. The way divorce turns the Roses vicious to their cores — vicious truly, vicious and meaning it — is not part of this telling. The way divorce turns the Roses vicious to their cores — vicious truly, vicious and meaning it — is not part of this telling.