The Smashing Machine, distributed by A24 and written and directed by Benny Safdie, has two goals. It is a vehicle for Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson to flex different acting muscles than usual by playing a ...

The Smashing Machine chronicles a key stretch of years in the life of wrestler-turned-mixed martial artist Mark Kerr (Johnson), as he leaps from doing foreign MMA tournaments to becoming one of the ...

THE SMASHING MACHINE Review | Dwayne Johnson's Best Performance Yet? Benny Safdie's THE SMASHING MACHINE. a new movie from A24, tells the raw, unflinching story of MMA legend Mark Kerr, and while ...

Benny Safdie’s “The Smashing Machine” isn’t what you think it is, especially if you think it’s a movie about a British guy who thinks his typewriter is the tops. “The Smashing Machine” would seem to ...

Benny Safdie wants to challenge our expectations of the traditional sports movie. His first solo directorial outing without his brother Josh, “The Smashing Machine” is a biopic that zigs when you ...

Opinions are the author’s alone and not endorsed by 2 NEWS and/or Nexstar Media Group. DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — In “The Smashing Machine,” we learn many things but one stands out more than the rest: ...

Welcome to the world of Mark Kerr. Welcome to a world of pain. He inflicts it. He absorbs it. He’s defined by it in “The Smashing Machine.” He’s a mountain of a man. Hulking. Battered. Tattered. On an ...

A kind of biopic – but not the kind you’re used to seeing, especially in a sports film – “The Smashing Machine” tells part of the biography of former wrestler and mixed martial artist Mark Kerr. ‘The ...

If early reviews have it right, Dwayne Johnson puts in an award-worthy performance in The Smashing Machine. The actor and former pro wrestler plays two-time UFC heavyweight champ Mark Kerr in the film ...

Benny Safdie wants to challenge our expectations of the traditional sports movie. His first solo directorial outing without his brother Josh, “The Smashing Machine” is a biopic that zigs when you ...

This image released by A24 shows Dwayne Johnson in a scene from "The Smashing Machine." (Eric Zachanowich/A24 via AP) Benny Safdie’s “The Smashing Machine” isn’t what you think it is, especially if ...