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4/18/26 Overboard   (Alan Silvestri)
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Buy it... for Alan Silvestri's heartwarming love theme for the main sparring couple of the tale, a preview of many similar pretty ideas to come for the composer.
Avoid it... on the score's sole, rare album if you seek undated quality from any of the other facets of the work.
4/16/26 Diggstown   (James Newton Howard)
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Buy it... only if you're an established apologist for (or even enthusiast of) the contemporary sports comedy stylings of the late 1980's and early 1990's.
Avoid it... if you have zero interest in hearing James Newton Howard whip up a blend of rock and blues enthusiasm at near-parody levels for a ridiculous boxing flick.
4/14/26 Whisky Galore!   (Patrick Doyle)
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Buy it... for roughly ten minutes of lovely melodic material in Patrick Doyle's top Celtic mode, the highlights of the work heartwarmingly alluring despite their parody roots.
Avoid it... if you have no interest in brazenly Celtic comedy music, the ethnicity pervasively challenging in the many wild jigs that dance through this score.
4/12/26 Young Guns II   (Alan Silvestri)
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Buy it... for a significant improvement over the prior film's music, Alan Silvestri intelligently balancing traditional Western elements with a flashy rock personality.
Avoid it... if Silvestri's typical mannerisms are what draw you to his music, very little in this score resembling his later mainstream works.
4/10/26 The Saint of Fort Washington   (James Newton Howard)
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Buy it... for a handful of distinctively pretty highlights that foreshadow popular James Newton Howard scores of subsequent decades.
Avoid it... if you expect to hear an engaging narrative outside of those singular highlights, most of this score depressingly drab in its demeanor.
4/8/26 Jig   (Patrick Doyle)
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Buy it... for a more contemporary and less intense take on the same constructs and instrumentation as Patrick Doyle's impressive La Ligne Droite.
Avoid it... if cohesive narratives are your key to the success of the composer's lyricism, this work tending to meander to address the plethora of characters in the story.
4/6/26 Shattered   (Alan Silvestri)
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Buy it... for Alan Silvestri's attractively contemporary and optimistic main theme in all its various romantic variations, over twenty minutes of such material existing on the longer album option.
Avoid it... if you demand the composer to be top form for his suspense portions, which utilize effective but mundane motifs and rely upon abrasive, metallic stingers and high-pitch whining to earn their pay.
4/4/26 Intersection   (James Newton Howard)
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Buy it... on its shorter, adequate album to enjoy one of James Newton Howard's most uniquely styled drama works, the highlighting blues personality of this score a breath of fresh air.
Avoid it... if you expect that distinct sound to make much sense for the location and content of the story, or if you demand consistent thematic clarity in your intimate tragedies.
4/2/26 Sleuth   (Patrick Doyle)
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Buy it... on album for the sheer originality of the music in Patrick Doyle's career, its dance mixes particularly fun in their outrageous interpretations of the composer's classicism.
Avoid it... if you expect anything you hear in the film to remotely function, Doyle's risky score not paying off due to its inability to convey a stylish presence in its otherwise intriguing, cyclical formations.
3/31/26 Beverly Hills Cop III   (Nile Rodgers)
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Buy it... to experience a total strategic failure of a soundtrack, Nile Rodgers set up for failure by the director's insistence that Harold Faltermeyer's franchise sound be replaced by that of Elmer Bernstein.
Avoid it... if you are a purist favoring the Faltermeyer renderings for the first two scores, because the orchestral redirection in this score, while sometimes admirably executed, sounds awkward with the legacy theme's various parts.
3/29/26 Soapdish   (Alan Silvestri)
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Buy it... for a highly spirited and unique, mambo-led comedy from Alan Silvestri, one of the composer's zaniest and wonderfully sarcastic career works.
Avoid it... if your testicles retracted into your body the moment the word "mambo" was mentioned above, because you have to love the Latin aspect of this score to appreciate its enthusiastic madness.
3/27/26 Junior   (James Newton Howard)
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Buy it... for a highly likeable, direct extension of James Newton Howard's warmly melodic and occasionally robust music for Dave.
Avoid it... if you expect to hear Howard's popular song from the soundtrack on the short but still recommended score album.
3/25/26 Pars Vite et Reviens Tard   (Patrick Doyle)
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Buy it... for brief moments of lightly dramatic intrigue in an otherwise sour atmosphere of suspenseful dread, Patrick Doyle exploring uniquely morbid structures for the topic of the plague.
Avoid it... if you require a compelling sense of mystery or character depth in this adequately cold symphonic exploration of simmering fear and bitter revenge.
3/23/26 Dutch   (Alan Silvestri)
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Buy it... on its problematic album to extract a pair of redemptive, pretty Alan Silvestri cues of light choral and orchestral drama at the story's conclusion.
Avoid it... because there's nothing particularly attractive about the rest of the basically functional but neither funny nor caring music for the failed film.
3/21/26 Just Cause   (James Newton Howard)
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Buy it... if you want a more action-oriented take on James Newton Howard's crime thriller sound, the thematic portions not quite as impressive as the robust suspense and chase passages.
Avoid it... and seek the related Eye for an Eye or Primal Fear instead if you desire better roles for the dramatic character themes in this style of Howard score.
3/19/26 As You Like It   (Patrick Doyle)
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Buy it... for a moderately interesting combination of Japanese tones and Patrick Doyle's conservatively pretty melodic base in a smooth but restrained atmosphere of light drama.
Avoid it... if you thrive on the lush romanticism of Doyle's lyricism, this score's thematic narrative cloudy outside of its violin-highlighted main theme.
3/17/26 Ricochet   (Alan Silvestri)
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Buy it... if tortuously unpleasant revenge thrillers stir your loins, because Alan Silvestri rarely went as broodingly unpalatable in the 1990's as he did in Ricochet.
Avoid it... even if you can forgive the score's unappealing demeanor, its narrative flow on a short album nearly incomprehensible as presented.
3/15/26 Eye for an Eye   (James Newton Howard)
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Buy it... if you have an established interest in James Newton Howard's proficient but not particularly memorable suspense mode of the 1990's.
Avoid it... if you expect the decently pretty but anonymously melancholy character drama of this score to compensate for the many cues of synthetic droning.
3/13/26 Wah-Wah   (Patrick Doyle)
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Buy it... for a conservatively attractive Patrick Doyle character drama that is easy to digest but offers nothing of true distinction.
Avoid it... and seek Doyle's related music for A United Kingdom if you desire more symphonic resonance for similar locales and general story concepts.
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