James Newton Howard wrote the thunderous and lachrymose score the weakest element in the movie.

NEWYORKER: Defiance

Zimmer also wrote the soundtrack for The Dark Knight and Batman Begins with James Newton Howard.

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Lindy Hemming, the costume designer, and Hans Zimmer and James Newton Howard, whose haunting music underscores -- and sometimes, usefully, overscores -- the film's haunted atmosphere.

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The appalling score is by James Newton Howard.

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