Benny Safdie's The Smashing Machine” would seem to bear all the hallmarks of something grittier, darker and more disturbing ...

The Rock packed on the pounds to portray college wrestler turned MMA fighter Mark Kerr in the deeply personal film he says “turned into more than a movie.” ...

Benny Safdie’s biographical sports drama about MMA fighter Mark Kerr is a harrowing watch, thanks to bruising performances ...

The Smashing Machine,” starring Dwayne Johnson as MMA pioneer Mark Kerr, is something simpler and less curious.

The new gritty sports biopic, The Smashing Machine, starring Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt, looks like an odd pairing for ...

Safdie opens the film with an almost Rocky III -like approach with a quick look at Kerr’s rise to fame as he lives up to the ...

Despite critical praise, audiences largely passed on Dwayne Johnson's performance as an MMA legend on the downswing of his ...

The first solo project by Safdie brother Benny ("Uncut Gems"), this too-loyal adaptation of a 2002 HBO doc on fighter Mark ...

Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine is not a triumphant sports movie in the traditional sense—it’s an unfiltered, ...

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At the Los Angeles premiere of The Smashing Machine at the Samuel Goldwyn Theatre in Beverly Hills, Dwayne Johnson spoke candidly about his new A24 biopic, emphasizing that the film is “not a fight ...