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3/26/25 The Cassandra Crossing   (Jerry Goldsmith)
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Buy it... on the 2008 Prometheus album only if you are an established enthusiast of Jerry Goldsmith's brutally raw, propulsive action and pretty character themes of the late 1970's.
Avoid it... if you expect any truly satisfying presentation of this merely average score to exist, its film recording relegated to muted mono sound and its stereo album sometimes significantly different in tone.
3/24/25 Twisters   (Benjamin Wallfisch)
Updated Review, With Additional Album
Buy it... if you can appreciate a competently exciting adaptation of the film's country song environment for an engaging and occasionally clever but ultimately anonymous orchestral romp.
Avoid it... if you expect to hear anything from Mark Mancina's 1996 score, Benjamin Wallfisch taking an arguably overthought approach to creating a complex sound for the sequel that is lacking a truly punchy thematic presence.
3/21/25 Damnation Alley   (Jerry Goldsmith)
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Buy it... on the 2017 Intrada Records product only if you wish to hear Jerry Goldsmith provide marginally interesting post-apocalyptic chase music with a full ensemble and early synthetics.
Avoid it... if you expect the quality of Goldsmith's output to merit the collectible albums on which it has appeared, the composer clearly not greatly inspired by the wretched film.
3/18/25 The Son   (Hans Zimmer)
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Buy it... only if you seek to complete your collection of drab, unexpressive, and emotionless Hans Zimmer dramas of minimal scope.
Avoid it... if you're badly constipated, because nothing in this music will help inspire that stubborn turd to get moving.
3/15/25 The Woman in the Window   (Danny Elfman)
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Buy it... for the opening and closing renditions of the main theme of vaguely warm but still challenging accessibility, the remainder of the score sufficiently mundane and workmanlike in the suspense genre.
Avoid it... unless you are prepared for a lesser incarnation of The Girl on the Train and a host of other Danny Elfman scores of moody minimalism.
3/13/25 The Matrix   (Don Davis)
Updated Review, With Additional Album
Buy it... on the 2008 limited album if you desire a most balanced and palatable presentation of Don Davis' often difficult, postmodern score, the 1999 and 2024 albums too short and the 2021 complete version only for true franchise enthusiasts.
Avoid it... if you demand the greater role of thematic tonality that develops in the two sequel scores by Davis, both featuring a more interesting blend of challenging dissonance and quasi-religious drama.
3/10/25 The Salamander   (Jerry Goldsmith)
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Buy it... for the impressive 2013 re-recording to hear the only available album of Jerry Goldsmith's compelling 1981 score and suites from two similar works from the same period.
Avoid it... if the aggressive brutality of Goldsmith's thriller mode of the late 1970's has never appealed to your tastes, this score very true to the composer's methodology at the time.
3/7/25 The Lonely Guy   (Jerry Goldsmith)
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Buy it... only if you seek to complete your collection of 1980's Jerry Goldsmith film scores, the comedy tones here far less mature than in the composer's genre works just a few years later.
Avoid it... if you have little tolerance for Goldsmith's lighter and upbeat synthetic mannerisms of the 1980's, their presence largely dominating the otherwise pretty orchestral presence.
3/3/25 Filmtracks announces its 2024 Awards
Filmtracks celebrates the best film music of 2024 with its annual nominees and winners in the categories of "Top Film Scores," "Top Composers," and "Top Film Cues." The nominees for "Top Film Scores" in 2024 are:
• Here  (Alan Silvestri)
• Spellbound  (Alan Menken)
• That Christmas  (John Powell)
• Wicked  (John Powell/Stephen Schwartz)
• The Wild Robot  (Kris Bowers)
• Young Woman and the Sea  (Amelia Warner)
Visit the 2024 Awards section to view the winners (and other categories). Also available is an official page for the 2024 Filmtracks Community Awards. For more information about these awards or to view the results from previous years, browse the Filmtracks Awards index.
2/27/25 Young Woman and the Sea   (Amelia Warner)
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Buy it... for one of the most dramatically wholesome and inspirational sports scores in cinematic history, Amelia Warner rising to the occasion with simple tonalities that work wonders in the picture.
Avoid it... if your brain cannot accept the general lack of complication to this score, or if you have an aversion to synthetic and rhythmic infusions that will remind you of Enya's heyday.
2/23/25 Atlas   (Andrew Lockington)
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Buy it... to hear Andrew Lockington return to his comfort zone with large ensembles and creative vocals, Atlas conveying his vintage adventure and fantasy voice with familiar appeal that leads to a truly outstanding end credits suite.
Avoid it... if you have always struggled with the composer's tendency to force his themes to earn their presence for a payoff at the end of a film, this score's set of identities smart but not truly satisfying until the rousing end.
2/20/25 Participate in the 2024 Filmtracks Community Awards
Each year at this time, Filmtracks readers and participants at the Scoreboard Forum share their top ten scores, top composer, and other optional opinions about the prior year's film, television, and video game scores. These votes are tallied at the end of February and featured in the Filmtracks Awards section. To participate, all you need to do is start a new thread at the Scoreboard with your selections. You do not need to create a profile account, though it is encouraged. For more background about this year's community vote, view the original announcement. The deadline is February 28th. Thanks for joining the 2024 vote!
2/16/25 Gladiator (1992)   (Jerry Goldsmith/Brad Fiedel)
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Buy it... if you love Jerry Goldsmith's approach to sports dramas, his tone darker in this entry but the inspirational core narrative and character themes still exemplary.
Avoid it... if you detest Goldsmith's harsher synthetic instrumentation, including his drum pads, the suspense and fight scenes in this work adopting a tougher attitude.
2/13/25 Blade   (Mark Isham)
Updated Review, With Additional Album
Buy it... on either album presentation only if you are an avid fan of the film itself, because Mark Isham's score is not noteworthy in either his career or the genre of vampires and urban combat.
Avoid it... if you expect any dose of supernatural or emotional depth to carry the more romantic side of a typical undead-versus-vampire story, even one as mindlessly violent as this.
2/9/25 The Public Eye   (Jerry Goldsmith/Mark Isham)
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Buy it... on the 2021 Intrada album for a pleasurable extension of Jerry Goldsmith's suspenseful noir methods and his stubborn refusal to give up on adapting his style from The Russia House into other works.
Avoid it... on the album featuring Mark Isham's serviceable and workmanlike replacement score, its style and tone far less vibrant and its themes inferior versions of Goldsmith's rejected ideas.
2/6/25 Godzilla Minus One   (Naoki Sato)
Updated Review, With Additional Album
Buy it... if you can appreciate Naoki Sato's emphasis on dissonant torment, anguish, grief, and misery in his original material for this more thoughtful take on the franchise.
Avoid it... if you prefer the propulsive personality of the classic Akira Ifukube scores for the concept, this soundtrack cutting between short re-recordings of that material and Sato's grim new music in a strategic misfire of epic proportions.
2/2/25 2 Days in the Valley   (Jerry Goldsmith/Anthony Marinelli)
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Buy it... on the 2012 album with Jerry Goldsmith's rejected score to hear one of the composer's more curious diversions of the 1990's with a dose of familiar comfort.
Avoid it... if you believe that Anthony Marinelli's alternative score of thrashing rock and minimal intelligence is a better fit for this terrible, trashy flick.
1/30/25 Dinosaur   (James Newton Howard)
Updated Review, With Additional Album
Buy it... if you regularly enjoy dynamic, entertaining, and ethnically diverse animation scores that paint with as many vibrant colors as the films' visuals.
Avoid it... if you require more than an obvious rearrangement of styles and themes from Hans Zimmer's The Lion King and Jerry Goldsmith's The Ghost and the Darkness for this score's highlights.
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