August 2025 was an excellent month for comedy, with movies like The Bare Gun and Freakier Friday. The month ends with a sensible new comedy from the director behind the Austin Powers motion pictures and Meet the Mother and father. The Roses, directed by Jay Roach, stars Benedict Cumberbatch and Olivia Colman as Theo and Ivy Rose, two lovers experiencing tensions of their marriage. The film adapts Warren Adler’s novel, The Conflict of the Roses, which was first tailored in 1989.