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10/10/26 Cecil B. DeMille: American Epic   (Elmer Bernstein)
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Buy it... with confidence because Elmer Bernstein's final score is a grandiose tribute to Hollywood's Golden Age and before, his handling of this documentary as appropriately nostalgic as one can imagine.
Avoid it... because the historical and original passages don't always mesh well in the finished product, and Bernstein doesn't develop his themes for this picture with enough narrative consistency to satisfy.
10/8/26 The Day of the Dolphin   (Georges Delerue)
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Buy it... for a pair of Baroque action cues and a somewhat pretty but very understated love theme highlighted by zither for the dolphins in the story.
Avoid it... if you have no interest in parsing Georges Delerue's dominant and rather uninteresting suspense mode even though he does employ unique metallic effects for the water and animals.
10/6/26 Frantic   (Ennio Morricone)
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Buy it... for an occasionally compelling blend of contemporary noir and traditional thriller stylings, Ennio Morricone emphasizing the modern, seedy locale.
Avoid it... because the multitudes of secondary motifs that comprise most of this score cannot match the appeal of its moderately romantic main theme.
10/4/26 True Grit   (Elmer Bernstein)
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Buy it... for a later entry among Elmer Bernstein's top Western works, its rousing themes and endearing personality as entertaining as ever.
Avoid it... in its original recorded form in mono sound and instead seek the outstanding 2006 re-recording that brings amazing new life to its entirety.
10/2/26 A Summer Story   (Georges Delerue)
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Buy it... for a reliably pretty expression of romantic drama from Georges Delerue with only his base ingredients in the ensemble, the outcome as predictable as ever.
Avoid it... because you desire only the most resounding incarnation of this methodology from Delerue, this recording rather weak at times and the themes too long to be memorable.
9/30/26 Days of Heaven   (Ennio Morricone)
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Buy it... because Ennio Morricone's set of romantic themes is among his heartiest expressions of Americana, matching the beauty of the film's stunning cinematography.
Avoid it... on any album other than the 2011 Film Score Monthly product that supplies three alternative presentations of the work with satisfying diligence.
9/28/26 Heavy Metal   (Elmer Bernstein)
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Buy it... for a campy fantasy romp that requires some appreciation of the film to understand its episodic nature.
Avoid it... because it introduces attractive ideas that rarely have an opportunity to fully develop and, in some cases, are too overblown in their personality to take seriously.
9/26/26 A Little Romance   (Georges Delerue)
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Buy it... for its delightfully pretty main title cue and similar material sprinkled throughout the otherwise disparate, light-hearted score.
Avoid it... if you expect the narrative of this unoffensive work to satisfy, Georges Delerue abandoning that title theme and never offering evolution to his other two, repetitive themes.
9/24/26 The Thing   (Ennio Morricone)
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Buy it... for its iconic main theme on the original soundtrack or on the fuller 2015 re-recording to hear Ennio Morricone's score alongside the additional music supplied to the film by John Carpenter and Alan Howarth.
Avoid it... on any of the albums if you expect the bulk of this score to match the memorable personality of its famous theme, most of the work languishing in soulless isolation and desperation.
9/22/26 The Talented Mr. Ripley   (Gabriel Yared)
Updated Review, With Additional Album
Buy it... only if you seek the competent and rousing selection of standard jazz pieces from the 1950's, the introverted and reflective score by Gabriel Yared largely overwhelmed by that surrounding material.
Avoid it... if you expect the score to trend towards Yared's more palatable work for Message in a Bottle or City of Angels rather than reprising the chilly atmosphere of The English Patient.
9/20/26 Elf   (John Debney)
Updated Review, With Additional Album
Buy it... if you can find merit in overly-exuberant 1950's era whistling and singing over light orchestral rhythms and John Debney's usual, consistently melodic output.
Avoid it... if you believe for good reason that if you've heard one light and fluffy Debney comedy score, you've heard them all, the only difference in this case being the Christmas spirit.
9/18/26 Devil in a Blue Dress   (Elmer Bernstein)
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Buy it... for a competent and at times effective Elmer Bernstein character score that only vaguely touches upon noir influences in its very restrained demeanor.
Avoid it... if you expect the score's style to compete with the jazz and blues of the plentiful songs in the picture, Bernstein content to dwell in the shadows for soft character drama instead.
9/16/26 Rich and Famous   (Georges Delerue)
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Buy it... for its lovely main theme in all its original variations, one of Georges Delerue's most gorgeous romantic identities.
Avoid it... because that theme cannot alone sustain an otherwise mundane, albeit effortless listening experience.
9/14/26 The Correspondence (La Corrispondenza)   (Ennio Morricone)
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Buy it... for an understated but occasionally attractive finale to Ennio Morricone's long musical journey, with one standout cue highlighting all the best the score has to offer.
Avoid it... if restrained soundscapes and unmemorable melodies cannot compensate for a stylish exploration of electric guitar so late in the composer's career.
9/12/26 The Age of Innocence   (Elmer Bernstein)
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Buy it... for its highly respectful representation of 1870's high society via formal waltzes straight from Elmer Bernstein's Golden Age roots.
Avoid it... because there is little overt passion in the many themes at work in the score, the formality of the whole heavily restraining each idea's potential.
9/10/26 Agnes of God   (Georges Delerue)
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Buy it... for its immensely powerful themes of religious gravity, Georges Delerue writing some of his most resonating career music for this film.
Avoid it... if you desire for that melodically graceful, chorally gripping material to occupy more than just a few moments in an otherwise suspenseful work.
9/7/26 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly   (Ennio Morricone)
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Buy it... for its two monumentally classic themes of popular influence, Ennio Morricone striking gold with the flashy highlights of this counterculture Western score.
Avoid it... because of most everything else in the score, the bulk of the music far more muted and conservatively rendered for the suffering in the tale's midsection.
9/5/26 Scream   (Marco Beltrami)
Updated Review, With Additional Album
Buy it... on the ridiculed 1998 album if you seek just a small but surprisingly adequate taste of the most memorable Marco Beltrami cues from the first two scores in the Scream franchise.
Avoid it... on the longer products if you expect the stock suspense and horror material from Scream to compete favorably with its contemporaries or, for that matter, its own sequels.
9/3/26 Masters of the Universe   (Daniel Pemberton)
Updated Review, With Additional Album
Buy it... because your love of 1980's rock is greater than your dedication to the original cartoon's musical style, the evolution in this adaptation playing towards the decade of the concept's origin rather than the concept itself.
Avoid it... because it's dumb parody music by design, meant to be over-the-top in its love affair with an irrelevant sound in an attempt to woo Generation X males.
9/1/26 Let Them All Talk   (Thomas Newman)
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Buy it... on the very brief score-only album if you are attempting to complete a soundtrack of the wildly diverse collection of songs and score you heard in the film.
Avoid it... if you expect the attractive 1960's jazz to occupy enough of this score to recommend for a Thomas Newman collector, many other cues resorting to the composer's lesser, ambient techniques.
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