Mixed martial arts is a style of full-contact fighting that combines techniques and styles from various sports, including wrestling, judo and jiu-jitsu — you get the picture. All of these sports have ...

It's hard to imagine a time before MMA took over the pay-per-view channels of every bar room and dorm in North America. But it wasn't that many years ago it was on the metaphorical ropes: targeted for ...

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 ...

“I just don’t want to fight,” Mark Kerr pleads to his girlfriend, Dawn Staples, during one of many domestic quarrels in “The Smashing Machine,” a granular if not particularly gritty drama set in the ...

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, ...

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is going back to his fighting roots but taking them to the big screen. In A24’s The Smashing Machine, the actor and WWE pro wrestler plays real-life retired fighter Mark Kerr ...

Reviews for Dwayne Johnson’s new movie, The Smashing Machine, have dropped ahead of its Oct. 3 release, and they’re surprisingly mixed. Up until earlier this week, buzz for Benny Safdie’s sports ...

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson stars as MMA pioneer Mark Kerr in the new film "The Smashing Machine." Critics are praising Johnson's performance as a significant departure from his previous roles, ...

Johnson stars in the new movie as MMA and UFC fighter Mark Kerr. Dwayne Johnson is opening up about his transformation in the upcoming A24 film "The Smashing Machine." Johnson portrays mixed martial ...

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 ...

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 ...