when did film music get this good?, September 1, 2007
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Carter Buswell’s eclectic score underscores the emotional urgency of the film it accompanied. Of the two products, it may prove the more enduring.
At times lush, at other times haunting, occasionally hokey–in keeping with the down-home and humorous moments of the film’s narrative–Buswell has married banjos, snare drums, and conventional orchestral scoring to produce twenty-six musical vignettes of remarkable emotional potency.
This is not great stand-alone music. But it is a very fine motion picture soundtrack perfectly tailored for a film that traffics in heroism and bold lines rather than nuance and subtlety.
A keeper.
Canter Bridge 
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