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It’s clobbering time for The Rock in The Smashing Machine, the new biopic about MMA fighter Mark Kerr, which opens in theaters this weekend. There’s no one better to play a ...

THE SMASHING MACHINE is a superb sports drama. Dwayne Johnson delivers a terrific performance as Mark Kerr, the title character. Emily Blunt is superb as Mark’s volatile girlfriend. In the end, Mark ...

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 ...

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 ...

Benny Safdie’s“The Smashing Machine” is an anti-biopic. It is very clearly an attempt by a filmmaker to make a sports movie that doesn’t lean into the expected clichés of sports movies. Whereas most ...

The Smashing Machine is in theaters Friday, October 3rd. There’s a scene somewhere in the middle of The Smashing Machine that involves a knife, a cactus and a mild disagreement. It’s a light argument ...

'The Carpenter's Son' is written and directed by Lofty Nathan, and co-stars FKA twigs, Isla Johnston, and Noah Jupe. reading time 2 minutes The teasers for The Carpenter’s Son thus far haven’t been ...

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 ...