"The Smashing Machine"

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 4 October 2025

⏱️ 99 minutes

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Summary

For this week's main podcast review, Josh Parham, Joselyn Safadi, Dan Bayer, and Giovanni Lago join me to review and discuss the latest film from Benny Safdie (his first solo directorial credit after working with his brother, Josh, throughout his career), "The Smashing Machine," starring Dwayne Johnson, Emily Blunt, Ryan Bader, Bas Rutten, and Oleksandr Usyk. Based on the 2002 documentary "The Smashing Machine: The Life and Times of Extreme Fighter Mark Kerr," the film had its world premiere at the 2025 Venice Film Festival, where it received the best reviews of Johnson's career for his committed performance and won the Silver Lion for Best Director for Safdie. Please tune in as we discuss the performances, direction, writing, authenticity to MMA, its awards season chances, and more in our SPOILER-FILLED review. Thank you for listening, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture and listen to this podcast ad-free Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.9	the next best picture podcast and this is our review of the smashing machine please give a
0:37.0	round of applause for Mark Kern.
0:40.1	Hello, and thank you to everyone for allowing me to be here today.
0:47.0	How can I just let you walk away?
0:49.6	You have been extremely understanding to me dealing with my personal struggles.
0:55.0	Oh, grab it Tom. Let's do it. He's the best.
0:58.0	It's no way. I can't find that.
1:00.0	Why? Why? Because my tummy. You know what that would do to my tummy. I would get sick everywhere.
1:04.0	No, it's about perspective, okay?
1:06.0	Just let you leave without a trace.
1:09.0	On the inside, you don't feel it.
1:11.6	You're like pinned against the wall.
1:17.3	Oh my goodness!
1:20.5	What is out!
1:22.7	This is truly shocking.
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