Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Reviews for Dwayne Johnson’s new movie, The Smashing Machine, have dropped ahead of its Oct. 3 release, and they’re surprisingly ...

Add that sensibility to a true-life tale of a mixed martial arts fighter in the late ’90s, and it’s only natural to spend much of “The Smashing Machine” bracing for tragedy, for some ear-splitting ...

A24’s “The Smashing Machine” is here. Benny Safdie’s latest, and first solo directorial project, follows Mark Kerr (played, fearlessly, by Dwayne Johnson) a pioneering UFC fighter in its early days, ...

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The contradictions of mixed martial arts brawler Mark Kerr can’t be contained by a ring, an octagon or a film. A vulnerable man with a brutal career, he went undefeated on the mat while struggling in ...

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 ...