Good movie, but horrible musical score
It mercifully disappears for long stretches in the late going, but it is jarring and loud and incredibly dated. I wonder if there's any precedent for re-scoring a movie to help it stand the test of time.
It also makes me wonder if it's possible to tell when a movie comes out that its score is going to age so poorly. I feel like scores of contemporary films are more timeless, but that could of course be because we don't have the perspective of a few years' hindsight. However, it's been quite a few years now since '90s movies came out, and I can't recall seeing a '90s movie whose score made me cringe like that. I think the '80s love affair with cheesy keyboards and synth drums may have been a special kind of mass hysteria.
EDITED TO ADD--The contemporaneous New York Times review indicates that it's not just in hindsight that the score sucks:
http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=940DE6D71E3BF937A25753C1A96E948260&partner=Rotten%2520Tomatoes
With the exception of a crashing soundtrack score, which says everything twice, ''The Accused'' is a model of no-nonsense, tight-lipped movie making.
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