‘The Smashing Machine’ is Dwayne Johnson’s attempt at Oscar-level respect as an actor, with director Benny Safdie doing his best to get the Rock there. Not nearly as pleasurably anxiety-inducing as ...

Dwayne Johnson shines, but the movie around him tells the wrong story. By Alissa Wilkinson When you purchase a ticket for an independently reviewed film through our site, we earn an affiliate ...

The Smashing Machine (2025) Film Review from the 50th Annual Toronto International Film Festival, a movie directed and written by Benny Safdie, and starring Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Lyndsey Gavin, ...

A review of 'The Smashing Machine' (2025), starring Dwayne Johnson as MMA fighter Mark Kerr. Covering his UFC and Pride FC days from 1997-2000. Is this movie a knockout? Unprecedented and ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Dwayne Johnson plays Mark Kerr in "The Smashing Machine," in theaters Friday. Photo courtesy of A24 LOS ANGELES, Oct. 1 (UPI) ...

Credits: Directed by Benny Safdie, starring Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Ryan Bader, Bas Rutten, Lindsey Gavin and Oleksandr Usyk. Rating/runtime: R for language and some drug abuse; 123 minutes. How ...

Dwayne Johnson packs on even more muscle for the role of a lifetime as complicated MMA fighter Mark Kerr. Benny Safdie's sports biopic "The Smashing Machine" puts The Rock in the Oscar best actor ...

With a title like The Smashing Machine, one might expect writer-director Benny Safdie’s first solo-directed feature to be a brutal, grinding sit. The film is based on the 2002 documentary of the same ...

LOS ANGELES, Oct. 1 (UPI) --The Smashing Machine, in theaters Friday, makes for an interesting biopic, as mixed martial arts fighters rarely get the same cinematic treatment as musicians or historical ...