Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A24’s R-rated Dwayne Johnson movie The Smashing Machine arrived on three week tracking looking quite buff this AM with an outlook ...

From "Rocky" to "Rush," so many sports movies, whether they're about boxing, racing or any number of athletic competitions, are often about the glory of victory and the arduous journey to get there.

Dwayne Johnson gives the performance of his career in "The Smashing Machine." He plays mixed martial arts fighter Mark Kerr, and in the role Johnson is a completely different person, worlds away from ...

Even thought the Rock’s Smashing Machine movie wasn’t the critically-acclaimed or box-office hit that A24 was hoping for, the studio now has another chance to drum up excitement for The Smashing ...

‘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 ...

I’m not going to lie, I wasn’t the biggest fan of The Smashing Machine. Though the 2025 movie features one of Dwayne Johnson’s best performances (at least his most transformative), I felt like Benny ...

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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 ...

“The Smashing Machine” is a strange one: a bio-drama about the emotional sensitivities of a professional fighter. Starring Dwayne Johnson, no less, and brought to us by writer-director Benny Safdie, ...

Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson's new Hollywood movie, 'The Smashing Machine', has become the lowest opening of the WWE legend's career, and fans have debated whether he's a better actor than John Cena. The ...

Benny Safdie wrote and directed the A24 feature that also stars Emily Blunt in the story of Kerr's path as a UFC Hall of Famer. By Ryan Gajewski Senior Entertainment Reporter “The last scene was ...

Minor spoiler alert! We're discussing plot points from "The Smashing Machine" (in theaters now), so be warned if you want to go in completely cold. With the new sports drama “The Smashing Machine,” ...