Johnson as Mark Kerr in 'The Smashing Machine' Film Critic Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine—premiering here at the Venice Film Festival—is satisfying as much for what it doesn’t do as for what it ...

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There are two movies called The Smashing Machine. The first is the 2002 documentary about Mark Kerr, former wrestler and mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter. Dwayne Johnson saw the film and as somebody ...

Dwayne Johnson transforms into pioneering MMA fighter Mark Kerr in 'The Smashing Machine,' a new biographical sports drama ...

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 ...

Johnson’s performance as mixed martial artist Mark Kerr “looks bound to win him awards recognition,” wrote one critic A24 Are Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt in the Oscar conversation for their new ...

Is Dwayne Johnson headed for the Oscars? Judging by the rapturous reaction to his performance as wrestler Mark Kerr in “The Smashing Machine” at the Venice Film Festival on Monday night, that seems to ...

If the film earns awards consideration in no other categories, “The Smashing Machine” should at least get a nod or two for wardrobe. The late 1990s and early 2000s were a hell of a time for men’s ...

Dwayne Johnson has been known worldwide as "The Rock," one of the greatest wrestlers the sport has ever seen. He also began to switch to a movie star in the early 2000s, and has since taken the world ...