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| 7/29/12
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Three Newly Expanded Reviews Debut |
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Recently revised versions of the following reviews are now available:
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• Malice (Jerry Goldsmith)
• Criminal Law (Jerry Goldsmith)
• Warlock (Jerry Goldsmith)
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with caution even if you are a Thomas Newman collector, for the romantic highlights of this
score are tepid and infrequent.
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if warmth in melody and performance is your expectation, the lack that key element in the
score compensated for by the famous Celine Dion song heard in the film but not included on the
soundtrack album.
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| 7/21/12
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Three Newly Expanded Reviews Debut |
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Recently revised versions of the following reviews are now available:
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• Matinee (Jerry Goldsmith)
• Mr. Baseball (Jerry Goldsmith)
• Angie (Jerry Goldsmith)
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| 7/17/12
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Identity (Alan Silvestri)
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Buy it... |
if you love punishing yourself with wretched sound effects and dissonant orchestral techniques
that could appropriately drive a person insane.
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Avoid it... |
if you believe for an instant that Alan Silvestri might tackle the horror passages in this
atmospheric nightmare with the same intelligence and muscularity exhibited in his respected
action works.
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| 7/9/12
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Red Corner (Thomas Newman)
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if you need reinforcement that China is a place of nightmares for Westerners, in which case
Thomas Newman's brutally challenging use of that country's stereotypical instrumental tones
will further dissuade you from ever wanting to travel there.
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if you have little tolerance for film music that inelegantly forces a socio-political
dichotomy upon you, Newman's symphonic relief for the protagonists too disparately heroic
despite yielding eight minutes of beautiful material for the album.
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