Damien Chazelle's $3.3 million jazz drumming drama pits Miles Teller against J.K. Simmons in one of cinema's most abusive mentor-student relationships. Simmons's terrifying Fletcher won the Oscar and the film's final drum solo sequence is the most exhilarating climax in 21st-century cinema.

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