This is possibly the best movie of the year. Intense and gratifying in every way. Whiplash rocks (or jazzes?). The film stars Miles Teller as a young jazz drummer who attends one of the best music schools in the country under the tutelage of the school’s fearsome maestro of jazz (J. K. Simmons). Those who find Jazz utterly boring and ancient will be taught a lesson. It ain’t. Whiplash is cinema at its best and J.K. Simmons is the new Marlon Brando – kind of – a shoe in for best supporting actor at the Oscars.