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Whiplash
Andrew Neyman is an ambitious young jazz drummer. Terence Fletcher is an instructor known equally for his teaching talents and his terrifying methods. Fletcher discovers Andrew and transfers the aspiring drummer into his band, forever changing the young man's life. Andrew's passion to achieve perfection quickly spirals into obsession, as his ruthless teacher continues to push him to the brink of both his ability-and his sanity.
6 December 1985, Santa Monica, California, USA
14 August 1984, Hampton, Virginia, USA
12 May 1962, Lakeland, Florida, USA
July 26, 2016
This is not a music movie-the numbers are dense and joyless-it's a sports movie, and a very assured one for a guy clearly reaching for the stars himself.
May 23, 2016
It's a riveting, thrilling film that gets away with an ending that's perhaps just a little too keen to cleanly resolve the jagged drama. But if you ever thought Glee or Fame would be better rendered as a one-on-one psycho-thriller, here's your film.
January 04, 2015
'Whiplash' is electric from beginning to end, a musical story of obsession, frustration and outright cruelty built on two knockout performances.
February 28, 2017
Simply outstanding.
April 28, 2016
Fast-paced, intelligent and highly entertaining. [Full review in Spanish]
January 04, 2015
The movie swings - physically, musically, psychologically, racially.
June 18, 2016
It's a thorny, thoughtful movie that asks provocative questions and isn't cocky enough to boast of knowing the answers.
January 04, 2015
Director Damien Chazelle, who based the story on his own experience as a student jazz drummer in the thrall of an Alpha task-master, has created a remarkably economical and claustrophobic piece of storytelling.
January 04, 2015
It would be an insult to call Chazelle a "promising" filmmaker, as this movie doesn't indicate mere potential - it is evidence of authentic, sometimes blazing talent.
August 16, 2016
Revealing both the dangers and payoffs of artistic ambition, Whiplash is sure to establish Chazelle as a directorial force to be reckoned with.
January 04, 2015
Such a cooked-up piece of claptrap that I half expected Darth Vader to pick up the baton.