Music Composed by John Williams
Rating: ****

I’d never have predicted that simply writing a review for an Indiana Jones score would send me into an existential crisis, but it’s hard to review a soundtrack that everyone’s already purchased and formed an opinion on without wondering why you’re bothering. My usual formula - here are the themes, [...]

Music Composed by Ennio Morricone
Rating: *** 1/2

Ennio Morricone may be the single great living film composer right now, with more masterpieces in his repertoire than anyone can seem to count. However, Morricone is also history’s single most prolific film composer, with 500 plus film scores to his name. It’s impossible to write that much material [...]

Music Composed by Harry Gregson-Williams
Rating: **

I’m going to start by confessing that I actually do have a partial soft spot for Gregson-Williams’ earlier score The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. No, I wasn’t big on the dated new age/world music passages, and no, I couldn’t stand the obnoxious and relentless [...]

Music Composed by Mychael Danna
Rating: ****

Michael Danna is one of those composers whose occasional presence in mainstream Hollywood always seems like a happy accident, as though art is sneaking in through the back door while commerce’s back is turned. In a world where even our best composers are forced into cookie-cutter templates, it never [...]

Music Composed by Philip Glass
Rating: ****

There was a time when a new film score from Philip Glass, one of the most significant concert composers of the past 50 years, was a rare and momentous occasion. But in the past couple of years, for some reason, Glass has grown quite prolific in his writing for film, [...]