For Whiplash, it mostly seems to boil down to one thing: how quickly can you drum? The opening track of the album makes that clear, as we hear a snare drum banged repeatedly by Andrew (Miles Telle ...

("Whiplash" is the song that Teller's character is playing when he's almost decapitated by a chair thrown at him. "Caravan" is the song with the extended drum solo in the film's wonderful third act.

I needed to line the pictures up, manually, for every drum hit. The most precise way ... to feel violent and brutal. He wanted Whiplash to be an action thriller first and music movie last ...

A Marine staggers his way through boot camp. An intern sleepwalks her day through hospital rounds. Probie firefighters get every bad job and are the butt of every rude joke They are grueling rites ...

but “Whiplash” is about jazz in almost exactly the same way that “Black Swan” is about ballet. Miles Teller (of “21 & Over” and “The Spectacular Now”) really does play the drums ...

The dark, gripping and unpredictable Sundance hit “Whiplash” will keep you as off-kilter as the syncopated jazz drum beat that leads its audience toward the film’s electrifying and surprise ...

Whiplash is, in many ways, a companion film to The Social Network. The similarities only begin with the film's protagonist Andrew (Miles Teller), a first-year jazz drummer at the highly ...

And my sense is that it may work again this year for Whiplash, a powerful drama that is being handled by Sony Pictures Classics. Whiplash — one of the great double-meaning film titles — was ...

"Whiplash" is, at its core ... This a punch-in-the-face, bleed-on-the-drum-kit kind of film, a riveting confluence of energy, passion and broken blisters that serves as a tribute to the obsessive ...

He’s willing to leave blood on the drum kit in pursuit of excellence. For all that dedication, he also craves approval. The intelligence of “Whiplash” has to do with a young man’s pursuit ...