From "Rocky" to "Rush," so many sports movies, whether they're about boxing, racing or any number of athletic competitions, are often about the glory of victory and the arduous journey to get there.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. With the new sports drama “The Smashing Machine,” director Benny Safdie and Hollywood megastar Dwayne Johnson want audiences to ...

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Dwayne Johnson is one of the most globally recognized movie stars. When he makes a movie, it’s almost always good for a box office weekend win. Of course, he’d never had to go up against Taylor Swift ...

BOTTOM LINE A too-serious star and a scattered screenplay make for a low-energy sports drama. In the opening minutes of "The Smashing Machine," UFC fighter Mark Kerr describes what it’s like to beat ...

‘The Smashing Machine’ is Dwayne Johnson’s attempt at Oscar-level respect as an actor, with director Benny Safdie doing his best to get the Rock there. Not nearly as pleasurably anxiety-inducing as ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Benny Safdie's The Smashing Machine, which arrived in theaters last ...

Benny Safdie wrote and directed the A24 feature that also stars Emily Blunt in the story of Kerr's path as a UFC Hall of Famer. By Ryan Gajewski Senior Entertainment Reporter “The last scene was ...

No matter how many movies he does, Dwayne Johnson always seems to play the same character. In recent years, he has been getting called out increasingly often for the same. The Smashing Machine should ...

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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 ...