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By Csw12 (567) on 06 Jan 2015

Whiplash is a one man show with J.K Simmons…

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By Trev29 (411) on 05 Jan 2015

There are some compelling performances here, although the movie does not live up to it. The movie lacks credibility…

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By Richard Corliss (1,032) for Time (1,811) on 05 Jan 2015

Directing with a cool, steady hand that renounces shaky-cam the way Fletcher would denounce rock ‘n roll, and getting strong performances…

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By Wesley Morris (1,967) for Grantland (318) on 04 Jan 2015

The movie swings - physically, musically, psychologically, racially…

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By J1Train (63) on 04 Jan 2015

An impressively acted and tense film about a warped kind of encouragement and what it means to be great. J.K…

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By Brett Mccracken (54) for Christianity Today (953) on 04 Jan 2015

Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons are both phenomenal in their parts, playing off each other as brilliantly as one horn to another in a jazz ensemble…

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By Kriebelr (11) on 04 Jan 2015

Positives: J.K. Simmons is terrifying, and really great…

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By Genevieve Valentine (37) for Philadelphia Weekly (778) on 04 Jan 2015

Though Simmons gnaws through the screen with every glance, Teller's a suitably brutal canvas…

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By Brian Miller (136) for Seattle Weekly (293) on 04 Jan 2015

[An] intense, brutal, and often comical tale of mentorship gone amok…

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By Jonathan Kiefer (305) for SF Weekly (560) on 04 Jan 2015

A bit of a letdown in terms of actual characterization and music appreciation, writer-director Damien Chazelle's film is at least a thrilling…

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By Stephen Rebello (292) for Playboy Online (295) on 04 Jan 2015

As an ode to jazz, to the single-minded pursuit of greatness, and to the agony and exultation of jamming to one's inner drummer, Whiplash hardly…

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By James Helmsworth (5) for Willamette Week (516) on 04 Jan 2015

Whiplash clefts music from dance, love and spirituality. What's left is muscle, red and raw, beating faster and faster against a drum…

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By Michael Smith (475) for Tulsa World (603) on 04 Jan 2015

The race for the Academy Award for best supporting actor is probably over, with J.K…

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By Anita Katz (182) for San Francisco Examiner (1,621) on 04 Jan 2015

Simmons is daunting and extraordinary from the moment Chazelle introduces the black-clad monster, but it is Teller, a former drummer, who carries…

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By Jake Alden-Falconer (1) for Independent (UK) (2,026) on 04 Jan 2015

I push people beyond what's expected of them, Simmons tells Teller. I believe that's an absolute necessity. You might say the same about the film…

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By Norman Wilner (961) for NOW Toronto (1,621) on 04 Jan 2015

Chazelle's plot twists grow increasingly ridiculous, prizing intensity over credibility, and the final act has the feel of a fever dream…

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By Adam Woodward (285) for Little White Lies (3,136) on 04 Jan 2015

If Chazelle's primary objective was simply to present two grossly exaggerated and unsympathetic characters, then he's succeeded in some style…

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By Richard Roeper (2,737) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 04 Jan 2015

The music is brilliant, Chazelle’s writing and directing are something to behold, Teller is really good — and Simmons delivers one of the…

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By Cynthia Fuchs (1,328) for PopMatters (2,617) on 04 Jan 2015

A gorgeous ode to drumming, as art, as mastery and invention, as utterly thrilling experience…

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By George Varga (17) for San Diego Union-Tribune (1,408) on 04 Jan 2015

While Whiplash easily ranks as one of the most riveting feature films about drumming and jazz in memory (an admittedly short list), you don't…

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