He is specific in a way almost nobody is. On Sinners he quotes the film's own promise about music — a sound so pure it can pierce the veil — and says it delivers exactly that, which is a claim a reader can take into the cinema and check. On One Battle After Another he spends the whole review on a newcomer and calls the feeling she produces secondhand pride. He writes about the thing in front of him.
This isn't the first time that a Ludwig Göransson score has been inextricable from the texture of a Ryan Coogler movie, but Sinners opens with someone talking about a kind of music 'so pure it can pierce the veil between life and death, past and future' [...] and then proceeds to show us exactly what that sounds like.Sinners88
Magnetically self-possessed newcomer/instant movie star Chase Infiniti, whose performance inspires a strange kind of secondhand pride.One Battle After Another80
Lack[s] the unprecedented spectacle of its predecessors.Avatar: Fire and Ash—