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5/22/25 The Weather Man   (Hans Zimmer/James S. Levine)
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Buy it... if you often appreciate the style of Hans Zimmer's more intimate, improvised scores for small ensembles, especially if they serve their films with counterintuitive personalities.
Avoid it... if you expect this score's blend of spirited reggae, light jazz, maddening percussion effects, and meager string ambience to form a cohesive narrative or convincing soul.
5/18/25 Big Top Pee-Wee   (Danny Elfman)
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Buy it... if you groove to Danny Elfman's wacky, comedic parody music from Pee-wee's Big Adventure and can enjoy an infusion of extra carnival atmosphere.
Avoid it... on any album if you demand thematic continuity, this franchise's films failing to carry over any cohesive melodic identity and struggling to coordinate the ideas within this sequel score.
5/14/25 Ransom (The Terrorists)   (Jerry Goldsmith)
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Buy it... if you seek a surprising compelling thriller score from Jerry Goldsmith, complete with fascinating thematic tapestry, robust instrumentation, and accessible tonalities.
Avoid it... if you expect to find any satisfying album presentation for this music, its two albums featuring extremely poor sound quality due to the loss of the recording's masters.
5/11/25 Supercell   (Corey Wallace)
Updated Review, With Additional Album
Buy it... if you still yearn for the sound of John Williams' dramatic adventure music of the 1980's and 1990's, Corey Wallace perfectly executing a nostalgic score of considerable intelligence for a most unlikely film.
Avoid it... if there is no place in your heart for shameless emulation, because the structural and instrumental mannerisms of Williams absolutely permeate this work.
5/7/25 The Reincarnation of Peter Proud   (Jerry Goldsmith)
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Buy it... if you trust Jerry Goldsmith to provide intelligent instrumental and thematic design to cues for murder, masturbation, incest, and fornication.
Avoid it... if you expect to find any truly satisfying album presentation for this challenging hybrid score, its poor sound quality long inhibiting its appeal.
5/3/25 12 Years a Slave   (Hans Zimmer)
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Buy it... to study a prime example of a score respected because of the quality of its film rather than its own merits, Hans Zimmer playing this project conservatively to ensure harm prevention rather than elevate the narrative.
Avoid it... if you have no interest in minimally audible, derivative, and repetitious stewing that conveys absolutely no heart, no soul, and no passion for this powerful film.
4/29/25 Pure Luck   (Jonathan Sheffer/Danny Elfman)
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Buy it... to pad your Danny Elfman collection if you find good cheer in his vintage music for lightweight movies like Summer School and Article 99.
Avoid it... if you hope to hear the score branch off from Elfman's typical style because of his marginal involvement, Jonathan Sheffer remaining extremely faithful to his sound of the era.
4/26/25 A Girl Named Sooner   (Jerry Goldsmith)
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Buy it... if there is no limit to your adoration for Jerry Goldsmith's sensitive character themes, this television score featuring a pair of his lovely identities for a small ensemble.
Avoid it... if you cannot overcome highly dissatisfying sound quality that sometimes causes distracting distortion to the soundscape in fuller cues.
4/23/25 Islands in the Stream   (Jerry Goldsmith)
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Buy it... only if you appreciated Jerry Goldsmith's introspective score in the context of the film, where the music reflects the subtleties of the ocean and the story's lead character.
Avoid it... if you want this highly personal, touching score to exude much outward warmth, for it is content in its own introverted sphere of lonely ambience at low volumes.
4/20/25 Babe (1975)   (Jerry Goldsmith)
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Buy it... only for the notable finale cue of sentimental remembrance from the full ensemble, the bulk of Babe understated in its pleasant but underwhelming acoustic guitar, harp, and string presence.
Avoid it... if you expect Jerry Goldsmith to provide a film about a historic female athlete with anything remotely resembling the inspiration of his later, famous sports drama scores.
4/16/25 Son of God   (Hans Zimmer/Lorne Balfe/Various)
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Buy it... if your faith compelled to view and enjoy this film, in which case its souvenir soundtrack with re-used Hans Zimmer derivatives and movie quotes might inspire you.
Avoid it... if you prefer to use your brain.
4/13/25 9   (Deborah Lurie/Danny Elfman)
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Buy it... for its ten-minute payoff of compelling action and fantasy at the end, including hints of Danny Elfman magic in the dramatic finale cue.
Avoid it... if an effective but workmanlike, anonymous thematic core in typical orchestral style doesn't hold your interest for a concept as unique as this one.
4/9/25 Logan's Run   (Jerry Goldsmith)
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Buy it... for Jerry Goldsmith's masterful interplay between the score's two themes, the romantic payoff at the end a hearty conclusion to an otherwise challenging work.
Avoid it... if the composer's synthetic explorations of atonality during the 1970's drive you insane, for the completely electronic passages in the score are wildly intrusive.
4/6/25 Out of Africa   (John Barry)
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Buy it... if broad John Barry romanticism of consistently dramatic tonality melts your heart, in which case Out of Africa is among three or four scores of absolute certainty for your collection.
Avoid it... if you expect this score to sound anywhere near as decent in its original recording quality as some of Barry's equivalent works or if you desire a plentitude of thunderously melodramatic performances in the ranks of Dances With Wolves.
4/4/25 High Velocity   (Jerry Goldsmith)
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Buy it... if you consistently appreciate Jerry Goldsmith's suspenseful action mode of the 1970's and wish to hear that sound infused with Latin specialty instrumentation.
Avoid it... if you expect any of the melodies or performance techniques of this score to reach out with distinction, the terribly archival quality of the recording hampering the soundscape considerably.
4/1/25 Woman in Gold   (Martin Phipps/Hans Zimmer)
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Buy it... for a competent, conservative drama score that adequately shares a chamber feeling between understated themes supplied by Martin Phipps and Hans Zimmer.
Avoid it... if inspiration is your expectation, Phipps' work elevating optimism and determination for the protagonist in only a few cues and Zimmer's portion stewing in the gloomier flashback sequences.
3/29/25 Restless   (Danny Elfman)
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Buy it... for an extremely conservative, lightly touched Danny Elfman drama with almost none of the composer's trademark quirkiness.
Avoid it... if you, like Gus Van Sant, ponder why Elfman never provides the director's stories with overtly orchestral and deeply emotional scores, this one never really hitting the heart.
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.
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