Volker Bertelmann scores like boiling water in A House of Dynamite . The flame is lit and the heat rises throughout Kathryn Bigelow’s nuclear thriller, in which a nuke flies toward Chicago. Bertelmann’s music is well-calibrated tension that screams doom even at its most subtle cues.

It’s another accomplished piece of work from the Academy Award-winning Bertelmann, who scored Conclave and All Quiet in the Western Front . House of Dynamite isn’t his only new film on Netflix; there’s The Ballad of a Small Player as well. The composer described the surreal gambling drama to What’s On Netflix like a descent into hell during a recent interview all about his unnerving work in A House of Dynamite .

You previously worked with Netflix on All Quiet in the Western Front . Any les

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