Music Composed by Thomas Newman
Rating: **** 1/2
There are a small handful of composers that I can count on to write something great every time they score a new movie. Like, five of them, tops. Thomas Newman is one of them. He wasn’t always. Back in the late 1990s, he was a very hit and miss [...]
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 Danny Elfman
Rating: ****
Danny Elfman is a composer who is seemingly restless in his career. Even after cementing his position in the top tier of film composers, he doesn’t seem content to sit back and score movie after movie, cashing paycheck after paycheck. Instead he’s become a experimentalist, trying documentaries (Deep [...]
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 [...]
