Combined with an understated yet beautiful score by Nathan Halpern, The Rider confirms Zhao as one of the great new American directors, looking at the lives of people too often ignored in cinema, and in a way too often not attempted. (screenanarchy.com)
With a staggeringly beautiful score from Dario Marianelli, a seemingly endless array of inspired character designs, from the otherworldly floating Kabuki masked Sisters to an impossibly giant skeleton beast with glowing golden eyes, and a prodigious (though entirely too white considering the setting, with McConaughey's lazy southern drawl particularly out of place despite his great performance) voice cast, (alphaprimitive.com)
Will is composing one of the most unique, personal, and hauntingly beautiful scores of his career for Anew: The Distant Light. (kickstarter.com)