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It’s hard to say writer-director Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine is bad. It’s certainly well-made. It also sounds amazing. Most importantly, it features a genuinely outstanding lead performance ...

The Smashing Machine, starring Dwayne ‘The Rock” Johnson as legendary mixed martial arts and UFC fighter Mark Kerr, is coming soon to HBO Max. The Smashing Machine also stars Emily Blunt as Kerr’s ...

The Rock's wildly anticipated debut in a serious dramatic film — directed by Benny Safdie and co-starring Emily Blunt — will receive its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival on Monday night, ...

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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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Simon is a Los Angeles-based journalist who covers film and TV. Although biographical sports drama The Smashing Machine is based ...

A cinematic obsessive with the filmic palate of a starving raccoon, Rob London will watch pretty much anything once. With a mind like a steel trap, he's an endless fount of movie and TV trivia, borne ...