How ‘A House of Dynamite’ Relied on Volker Bertelmann’s Score to Create Tension and Anxiety

How ‘A House of Dynamite’ Relied on Volker Bertelmann’s Score to Create Tension and Anxiety

Kathryn Bigelow’s “A House of Dynamite” is filled with uneasy tension from start to finish as it follows the immediate threat of a nuclear missile headed straight for the United States. That driving tension and anxiety are largely thanks to the team of artisans, which included composer Volker Bertelmann, editor Kirk Baxter and sound designer […]

Readers’ Thoughts on Kathryn Bigelow’s ‘A House of Dynamite’?

It should have been a movie event, Kathryn Bigelow’s first film in eight years, “A House of Dynamite,” premiered to rapturous reviews at Venice (89 on Metacritic!) only to come back down to earth once more critics saw it (75 on Metacritic).I had seen it on the lido, and those early raves already felt puzzling, but the broader rollout seems to be exposing the film’s weaknesses. Its sharpest assets are confined to the lean, gripping opening forty …