Suburbicon (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) is the soundtrack to the 2018 film "Suburbicon" directed by George Clooney and featured musical score composed by Alexandre Desplat. The film is Clooney's third collaboration with Desplat after "The Ides of March" (2011) and "The Monuments Men" (2014). ABKCO Records distributed the soundtrack and released day-and-date with the film on October 27, 2017.
Critical reception.
Brian Tallerico of "RogerEbert.com" described the score to be aesthetically "overdone", and Justin Chang of "Los Angeles Times" called it as jaunty and overbearing. Ann Hornaday of "The Washington Post" described it as "marvelous". David Rooney of "The Hollywood Reporter" wrote "Alexandre Desplat's score works overtime, shifting from sleepy cocktail jazz into needling agitation before pulling out all the stops and going the full Bernard Herrmann." David Edelstein of "Vulture" wrote "Alexandre Desplat whips up Bernard Herrmann–esque storms and tries to tie it all together musically. But not even Mahler could bring order to such a ramshackle structure." Alonso Duralde of "TheWrap" wrote that "Composer Alexandre Desplat channels Bernard Herrmann as hard as he can to provide this movie with some genuinely suspenseful underpinnings, but the music winds up offering far more than the film can handle."
Ed Gibbs of "Little White Lies" called it as "a strong score from Alexandre Desplat". Sean Wilson of "MFiles" called it as "a darkly comic score that both honours its soundtrack predecessors and carves out highly entertaining territory of its own." Hugh Oxlade of "Varsity" wrote "Alexandre Desplat's mix of propulsive, Looney Tunes-style pounding and genteel jazz imbues sections of the film with tremendous pep and vigour, and others with deliciously cool irony." Fionnuala Halligan of "Screen International" wrote "Alexandre Desplat's jaunty score helps keep the period mood bubble in place even when the going gets significantly tougher." In contrast, Charlotte O'Sullivan of "Evening Standard" wrote "Alexandre Desplat's soundtrack is overwrought, and paying homage to Psycho is a particularly bad move."
Personnel.
Credits adapted from liner notes.
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