What makes a brilliant teacher? What makes an excellent student? What makes an extraordinary performer? What makes an exceptional film? Well.. there might be answers to some of these questions in Damien Chazelle's brilliantly written screenplay is as brilliantly acted by the cast including Miles Teller and J.K. Simmons in one of his best performances till date.

Terence Fletcher (Simmons) is a Jazz instructor at one of the most reputed music school in the country called Shaffer's studio and Andrew Neiman (Teller) is a ambitious student there, is a very talented drummer but kinda shy. Does Terence see true hidden talent in Andrew, or does he just a hard pushing, frustrated and narcissist, inhuman being? The movie goes from ups and downs of all kind, taking really unexpected turns until the end. The climax scene with Andrew playing does become little stretched and even embarrassing for few minutes, but that's the essence. Keep going without caring, until you get what you want, what you deserve.

You may not like this movie if you can't take abusive narcissist leaders (your boss? someone you know? lol) or don't care much about music. You'll love the movie if you're a jazz fan, a music fan, or just fan of hardcore inspirational go-getter movies!