★★★★★
After his resounding success with his previous three films ("Signs", "Unbreakable", and "The Sixth Sense"), M. Night Shyamalan has tremendously high expectations resting on his shoulders with his latest release, "The Village". After penning brilliant scores for Shyamalan's last three films, composer James Newton Howard has similarly high expectations to create another pitch perfect score...
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2010-12-07
★★★★★
James Newton Howard sets an immediate tone of foreboding in his original motion picture soundtrack to M. Night Shyamalan's "Lady in the Water". It's his fifth collaboration with Shyamalan, having scored all his films -- "The Sixth Sense," "Unbreakable,""Signs," and "The Village" -- the latter earning him on Oscar-nomination. Maybe "foreboding" isn't the right word. Eeriness might be a better descriptive term, for the film is more a bedtime fairy tale than thriller...
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2010-12-07
★★★★★
In the annals of composer-director collaborations, there's one that might not be more steadily enabling than that of James Newton Howard and M. Night Shyamalan. Beginning with his chilling score for 1999's THE SIXTH SENSE, Howard has developed his own eerily dramatic language for the director's subdued genre films- one that cinematically peaked early on with the sonar-like rhythms of SIGNS and the muted super-heroics of UNBREAKABLE...
- www.filmmusicmag.com
2010-07-17
★★★★★
Label: Varese Sarabande
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Grade: B+
Since his otherwise inauspicious filmscoring debut on 1985's Head Office, James Newton Howard has proven himself to be one of the most consistently talented composers working in Hollywood, excelling in every genre from urban dramas (Grand Canyon) to effects-driven action (King Kong), ghostly thrillers (The Sixth Sense) and Disney animation (Atlantis)...
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2009-04-21
★★★★★
Film composer James Newton Howard marks his fifth collaboration with director M. Night Shyamalan on Lady in the Water. Shyamalan, of course, is known for his imaginative, sometimes surrealistic mystery films The Sixth Sense, Unbreakable, Signs, and The Village, and Lady in the Water is another of them, with its story of a nymph residing in and around the pool at an apartment complex...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
The soundtrack to Scott Hicks' 1999 film Snow Falling on Cedars features a score by James Newton Howard, who also composed music for The Sixth Sense and My Best Friend's Wedding. His music for this film reflects its compelling, emotional story, which is based on David Guterson's novel about a journalist covering the murder trial of a Japanese-American man married to his first love.
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
James Newton Howard's The Man in the Moon is a touching and tender evocation of postwar Americana. Howard's folksy melodies and aw-shucks arrangements vividly capture the sound and spirit of smalltown life in the Eisenhower era--with its woodwind solos, mandolin accents and simple strings, the music is beautifully pastoral and plaintively emotional, communicating both exhilarating highs and devastating lows with clarity...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
James Newton Howard's music for the Robert Downey Jr. historical epic Restoration is a grandly theatrical score, filled with sweeping romantic strings and dramatic brass.
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
★★★★★
James Newton Howard's memorable score to the hit 1993 thriller The Fugitive employs percussion to excellent effect, creating a series of jagged, densely rhythmic themes that vividly evoke the film's pulse-pounding suspense as well as its gritty urban milieu. With a scaled-down orchestra primarily emphasizing strings and woodwinds, the music lives or dies on its rhythmic intensity, and Howard does not disappoint...
- music.aol.com
2008-08-27
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