Discover What’s Streaming On: Benny Safdie’s first solo feature, The Smashing Machine, may appear as disarmingly simple as the sports movie formula. But he has high-minded aspirations with his ...

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 ...

It’s hard to say writer-director Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine is bad. It’s certainly well-made. It also sounds amazing ...

The Venice Film Festival hosted the world premiere of The Smashing Machine, Benny Safdie’s first solo directorial film. The biopic stars Dwayne Johnson as the legendary mixed martial arts fighter Mark ...

All products featured here are independently selected by our editors and writers. If you buy something through links on our site, Mashable may earn an affiliate commission. The ways he does this are ...

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 ...

Safdie's sincerely played duet between Johnson as an opioid-addicted MMA fighter and Emily Blunt as his codependent girlfriend sounds in and out of the ring like the stuff of awards fodder. In ...

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 ...

Anna Miller is an LA-based Features Editor at Collider who studied Film Production in University and is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved Film Critic who has covered global in-person events such as the ...