Being back in the theater, watching “Black Widow,” “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” and “Eternals,” has been a thrill. After the long drought of 2020 into 2021, the singular transportive power of these films, about beings gifted with godlike powers while remaining damnably human, took on an even greater importance.
And one of the things that made watching these films so special, enhancing the communal aspect of the experience and delivering something no weekly Disney+ show could ever hope to achieve, was the music. The loudness, the intricacy, its singular ability to amplify everything going on on-screen.