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Two of the finest actors of their generation, plus a hilarious script from "The Favourite" screenwriter Tony McNamara, aren't enough to fix the lack of chemistry between an English couple at war. It's been 36 years, approximately 40 million divorces, and a radical cultural shift (or several) since Danny DeVito's dark romantic comedy "The Wars of the Roses" pitted Kathleen Turner and Michael Douglas against each other, but that film's marketing pitch still makes me laugh. Director: Jay Roach Writers: Warren Adler, Tony McNamara Stars: Olivia Colman, Benedict Cumberbatch, Kate McKinnon "Once in a lifetime, a movie comes along that makes you feel like you're falling in love again," the tagline joked. "This isn't that movie." Bringing fresh wit and 21st-century gender politics to Warren Adler's scathingly anti-rom-com novel, "The Fockers" director Jay Roach has removed the "war" from "The Wars of t...