Paul Reiser

Like the slow rhythmic tapping on the drumskin, Damian Chazelle’s exhaustively brilliant drama begins as a quiet character study, slowly works in its astonishing acting components as an accompanying beat, before exploding into a bloodied knuckle crescendo of a finale which ranks as one of the very best performed, edited, and emotionally stimulating scenes in recent memory.

Like the slow rhythmic tapping on the drumskin, Damian Chazelle’s exhaustively brilliant drama begins as a quiet character study, slowly works in its astonishing acting components as an accompanying beat, before exploding into a bloodied knuckle crescendo of a finale which ranks as one of the very best performed, edited, and emotionally stimulating scenes in recent memory.