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Rosebush Pruning

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16% Tomatometer 57 Reviews Popcornmeter Fewer than 50 Ratings
Underneath the Catalonian sun, a rich white American family lives in hedonistic isolation, seeking love and validation through one another, their designer wardrobes and pop music. When an outsider infiltrates the family, buried tensions surface and blood ties are severed.
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Visually polished but dramatically hollow, Rosebush Pruning pairs strong performances with stylish excess yet never matches its satirical ambitions with genuine wit or insight.

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Bianca Farmakis The Australian Sep 9, 2026
2/5
Deeply asinine, and hopelessly grasping for metaphorical meaning, the film’s motivations flop consistently, all too seamlessly summarised by Ed’s summary: “we are all lazy, mediocre, vapid egotists.” Go to Full Review
Jared Richards The Age (Australia) Aug 31, 2026
1/5
An eat-the-rich satire following a wealthy, amoral family...neither its stunning cinematography nor juvenile transgressions (incest! murder!) can hide that it has nothing to say. Go to Full Review
Brian Tallerico RogerEbert.com Aug 21, 2026
1.5/4
Still, it’s one of those projects that might have actually made a bigger impression if it were even worse—as is, it’s just disposable. Go to Full Review
Brett Arnold At the Movies Again Sep 1, 2026
Aims for Todd Solondz and lands closer to Emerald Fennell Go to Full Review
Will Bjarnar InSession Film Sep 1, 2026
D-
A film can only tell without showing so much before it becomes grating Go to Full Review
Dionar Hidalgo Algo Más Que Cine Aug 24, 2026
5/10
Stylish, darkly funny and deliberately provocative, Rosebush Pruning has plenty of perversity but little real bite. Aïnouz delivers striking visuals and committed performances, yet its transgressions often feel more decorative than disturbing. Go to Full Review
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Thiago R @FlashTommy96 3 days ago A movie that tries to be weird the entire time. It's one of those "eccentric rich people doing weird things" films, which has almost become its own cinematic subgenre. The script touches on several heavy topics like patriarchy, sexism, and incest, packed with uncomfortable scenes and situations. Not a single character seems sane, as everyone is unstable, so the performances are extremely convincing and stand out as the highlight of the movie. The issue is that it focuses so much on absurdity and exaggeration at the expense of keeping the story fluid and fully developing all the characters. I'm not even sure if I got the overall purpose of the film, as the ending was quite confusing to me. See more Caroline R @KazzaR 5 days ago I can't express how bd this was, other than to say it was pretentious, self indulgent nonsense. Jamie Bell is worth more than this! See more Brent F @RT33859922 Oct 10, 2026 Cult classic. I’ll forever enjoy eggplant more, and brushing teeth. See more Matteo P @RT73529262 Sep 21, 2026 16% on rotten tomatoes is enough for you to know that this movie is worth watching and a real gem of this year. Not only a brilliant and flawless cast, an amazing photography work and one of the finest, dense writings of these last months if not years. Rosebush pruning is a vivid critic of flawlessness and perversion of the upper class that has the power to feel reasonable but strangely uneasy, to smell like rotten food, an object of desire that is no longer desired, one of the finest way of portraying the appalling nature of millionaires. A staging that feels like an artificial, custom-made telenovela made of disgusting people, what could be better and more powerful to better tell the disgusting truth? One can complain about the movie "trying so hard to shock you" on rotten tomatoes and the score will lower. That’s how this shit hole is. To me, Rosebush Pruning is an absolute must-watch like a few out there. A subject that respects itself and that remains itself to the end. See more Marina S @Marina973 Sep 8, 2026 Trying too hard to shock you and not hard enough to actually give you anything with substance. Don’t waste your time this isn’t Saltburn.. See more Gabor Z @RT25520507 Sep 5, 2026 Shocking, well edited, well shot. Nailed us to the sofa. Surprising, disgusting and funny at the same time. Perfect cast. See more Read all reviews
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Synopsis Underneath the Catalonian sun, a rich white American family lives in hedonistic isolation, seeking love and validation through one another, their designer wardrobes and pop music. When an outsider infiltrates the family, buried tensions surface and blood ties are severed.
Director
Karim Aïnouz
Producer
Simone Gattoni, Annamaria Morelli, Andreas Wentz, Vladimir Zemtsov
Screenwriter
Efthimis Filippou
Distributor
MUBI
Genre
Drama
Original Language
English
Release Date (Theaters)
Jul 24, 2026, Limited
Release Date (Streaming)
Aug 21, 2026
Box Office (Gross USA)
$13.7K
Runtime
1h 34m
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