An Inspector Calls (1954)

What starts as a cute meet-cute in a London kitchen spirals into absolute chaos involving crab shells, destroyed architectural plans, and some of the most vicious one-liners I've heard all year. Jay Roach's The Roses takes Danny DeVito's 1989 dark comedy The War of the Roses and gives it a modern spin that hits way too close to home. Watching Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch tear each other apart on screen, I couldn't decide whether to laugh or hide behind my popcorn—which is exactly what makes this film so damn good.When Love Goes Nuclear

Remakes. Reboots. Reinventions. Redundancy. It's the common practice in Hollywood of late, sometimes offering us victorious reimagining of what can be considered cinematic classics while also, more often, falling flat on their UN-imaginative faces in utter defeat and lackluster results. Admittedly, with this in mind, I went into the newest incarnation of "The War of the Roses" with typical trepidation and cautious optimism.

Fortunately, what I was given was a fantastically, though expectedly scathing, adventure in dark humor, satirical excellence, and sometimes straight up, hilarious FUN. I mean, it's brutal, no doubt. There usually wouldn't be, or frankly SHOULDN'T be, any genuine elation to be had when watching the deconstruction of two people's relationship that begins so beautifully, yet ends so unceremoniously.