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grace is McCarthy’s affecting performance as a hardworking woman at the end of her rope. Rated PG-13. 102 minutes. Regal DeVargas, Santa Fe. (Robert Ker) WHIPLASH Miles Teller plays teenage jazz drummer Andrew Neiman, whose dreams of becoming one of the greats hinge on surviving elite music instructor Terence Fletcher (a riveting J.K. Simmons), the sort of teacher who’s more likely to throw a chair at his student’s head than say “please” when requesting a drumroll. This indie-drama by Damien Chazelle won two major awards at Sundance and compellingly explores the ways in which the power dynamics of a mentoring relationship can turn a teacher’s obsession into a student’s compulsion. Rated R. 107 minutes. Regal DeVargas, Santa Fe. (Loren Bienvenu) THE THEORY OF EVERYTHING A movie about Stephen Hawking ought to be bursting with ideas, exploding like the Big Bang, expanding like the universe. What director James Marsh has come up with is a nicely crafted, watchable, but conventionally structured romantic biopic. It has, however, one extraordinary feature that lifts it above the level of Lifetime entertainment and gives it wings. Eddie Redmayne is brilliant in his transformation into the gnarled, twisted physical wreck of the Hawking we know, body confined to a wheelchair, voice produced by a machine, mind soaring through time and space. What we miss is the excitement of Hawking’s mind. Rated PG-13. 123 minutes. Regal DeVargas, Santa Fe. ( Jonathan Richards)