The end of the month brings a small but powerful selection of new content on HBO Max, including the Rock’s star turn in a MMA biopic and an unforgettable WWII documentary.
x has a huge selection of shows and movies from its partner networks, including HBO, Discovery, Food Network, and more. New shows and movies are added all the time, so here are my top choices for this weekend and the week ahead, plus everything new streaming below. The last week of the month is always pretty light, but we have the critically acclaimed Smashing Machine and other shows and movies to check out.This Week on Max: PCMag’s PicksThe Smashing Machine (Jan. 23)
If you said 10 years ago that Dwayne «The Rock» Johnson would be a Golden Globe nominee for actor in a drama, you’d get laughed out of the building. But Benny Safdie’s biopic of troubled MMA fighter Mark Kerr was built from the ground up to let the former wrestling Rock flex his acting muscles, and he did a solid job with a complex figure.
