The Witches Review: 4 Ups & 6 Downs

by Jack Pooley

1. Alan Silvestri's Terrific Musical Score

The Witches 2020
Warner Bros.

For the last 35 years, Zemeckis has had all of his movies scored by the brilliant Alan Silvestri, who is responsible for the memorable scores of the director's big hits such as Back to the Future, Forrest Gump, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and Cast Away.

While Silvestri's compositions here doesn't get close to those masterworks, it is nevertheless a wonderfully jaunty and dynamic score which seems desperately in search of a better movie to support.

Silvestri's typical combination of swelling strings and bombastic brassiness evoke a nostalgic '80s adventure film vibe during set-pieces, with the composer doing his absolute best to elevate sequences which don't really measure up visually.

Without Silvestri's work on the movie's soundscape, it'd surely be even more forgettable.

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