I want to focus on the good first, and the acting in this movie is frequently quite good. If you go to the cinema to see stars fully inhabit other people, this is the flick for you. Dwayne Johnson, ...
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 ...
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Watching 'The Smashing Machine' feels like going 12 rounds

There's a reason this movie wasn't in theaters long enough to spit at, writes Mary Cox.
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 ...
The Smashing Machine chronicles a key stretch of years in the life of wrestler-turned-mixed martial artist Mark Kerr (Johnson), as he leaps from doing foreign MMA tournaments to becoming one of the ...