The director/writer is only 29!!!

Rating: 9/10 (12 February 2015)

I came across this movie as I was randomly watching movie trailers one day. I found the trailer and I was hooked. I watched this movie the next day and it just blew me away.
It is quite shocking to know that the director is only 29 years old. You won't guess that after you watch this movie.
This movie has basically 2 actors, Miles Teller & J.K. Simmons. Rest of the cast don't even matter. Both gave equally great performances in their own right. Miles Teller(Andrew) as "a kind of shy but committed to his goal" student and J.K. Simmons(Fletcher) as a ruthless, brutal, perfectionist teacher.
Miles did a good job as a student and this movie will be one more feather in his cap in his still very young career.
The character of Fletcher is a bit grandiose but looks brutally believable because of a very stellar J.K. Simmons performance(and he rightly got nominated for Best Supporting Actor). His character is plain ruthless. I had a lot of hatred towards his character throughout this movie. He should get bigger roles in the future.
It would be a shame if JK Simmons doesn't win an Oscar for this.
Overall this is easily an Oscar worthy material but I doubt if it will win. Still, it is the best movie I watched that released in 2014.