‘The Smashing Machine’ Review: The Rock dominates
<p>Editor’s Note: This review originally ran as part of our coverage of the 2025 Toronto International Film Festival, and today we’re re-publishing it with the film’s wider release. Check out our extensive review slate from TIFF50, revisit our official curtain-raiser, and check the complete Vanyaland coverage archives from prior editions. Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine is essentially about learning how to lose. Early on, our protagonist, the champion mixed martial artist Mark Kerr (Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson) is asked by a Japanese journalist how he’ll take it […]</p>
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