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6/11/26 Frances   (John Barry)
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Buy it... if your insatiable desire for every slight variation of John Barry's light suspense and tortured drama drives you to hear each application of that highly familiar mode.
Avoid it... if you expect to hear anything remotely distinct in this score, its techniques applied without any unique character and better heard in other Barry works.
6/9/26 Conclave   (Volker Bertelmann)
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Buy it... only for its uniquely engaging closing cue, the remaining music striving to earn your attention through its nasty intrusions rather than its narrative constructs.
Avoid it... if you have little tolerance for composers that use the same trick repeatedly, Volker Bertelmann's strategy for this film both tired and obnoxious.
6/7/26 P.S. I Love You   (John Powell)
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Buy it... for an irresistibly charming mood-lifter that represents some of John Powell's most affably attractive music in the romantic comedy genre.
Avoid it... if you hate getting that warm and fuzzy feeling and have no interest in hearing Powell lace another score with Irish tendencies.
6/5/26 Jojo Rabbit   (Michael Giacchino)
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Buy it... only if Michael Giacchino's music caught your ear in the film itself, because it's tough to appreciate his challenging strategic decisions without understanding why this music is so discordant.
Avoid it... if you've read the hype about the thematic portions of this score striving to emulate Up, because the same hearty appeal just isn't there.
6/3/26 The Golden Seal   (John Barry/Dana Kaproff)
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Buy it... for a satisfying blend of John Barry dramatism in a few highlights and Dana Kaproff's more varied action and location material, all of it symphonic.
Avoid it... if you hope that the tone can transcend the stereotypes of fluffy "child and animal" music, because much this pleasant work lacks significant substance.
6/1/26 Stop-Loss   (John Powell)
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Buy it... for a respectful and introspective treatment of military heroism, John Powell exercising restraint in his balance of contemporary defiance and traditional orchestral honor.
Avoid it... if you have no interest in a depressingly moody character score that saves its punch for the final ten minutes, the conclusive two cues containing the work's only truly engaging passages.
5/30/26 Let Him Go   (Michael Giacchino)
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Buy it... for the highly restrained, vaguely pastoral atmosphere of the minimally rendered pair of main themes, their tone pleasant but heart empty.
Avoid it... if you want to hear an actual Michael Giacchino score in the Western genre, because this entry can't resist resorting to tired thriller and horror techniques by the end.
5/28/26 Until September   (John Barry)
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Buy it... for a comfortably familiar extension of John Barry's soft romance sound of the 1980's, this entry never developing intensity but as easily digestible as it can be.
Avoid it... if you quickly tire of the composer's lack of emotional diversity, the performance inflection identical in each repeated melodic phrase during this conservatively pretty score.
5/26/26 Don't Worry Darling   (John Powell)
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Buy it... only if you savor extremely abrasive creativity in the horror genre, John Powell exploring unique ways to musically convey men's abuse of women.
Avoid it... if you expect Powell to follow his standard melodic tendencies or provide more than a few fleeting minutes of music that resemble the upsides of his other works.
5/24/26 Werewolf by Night   (Michael Giacchino)
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Buy it... for a handful of outstanding gothic highlights that stand as Michael Giacchino's loving tribute to unashamed monster music of yesteryear.
Avoid it... if the promise of that grand symphonic and choral magnificence is expected to last during the whole score, most of the work disintegrating into stock horror techniques.
5/22/26 Mike's Murder   (Joe Jackson/John Barry)
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Buy it... on the album with John Barry's replacement score if you seek all variations of the composer's subdued mystery and thriller mode, even in its most marginalized form.
Avoid it... on the albums with Joe Jackson's largely rejected fusion pop score and songs that partly remained in the film despite their highly inappropriate and now dated tone.
5/20/26 Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie   (John Powell)
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Buy it... for a challengingly prickly but ultimately rewardingly precise listening experience largely absent many of John Powell's usual friendly mannerisms.
Avoid it... and appreciate the film itself instead if you seek satisfying warmth from more than just a few cues in this dark journey of sometimes chaotic hyperactive movement.
5/18/26 Next Goal Wins   (Michael Giacchino)
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Buy it... for a musical souvenir from the film, because score collectors will find little narrative value to the work and will be best served by the closing suite only.
Avoid it... if you expect Michael Giacchino to generate a truly engaging ethnic personality in this repetitive and surprisingly emotionless score.
5/16/26 Jagged Edge   (John Barry)
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Buy it... for a typical, melancholy John Barry love theme of slightly bluesy personality led by flute and piano over synthetic atmospheres.
Avoid it... for the bulk of synthetic suspense and killing material that defines the rest of the score, Barry's use of electronics sufficient but not very interesting.
5/14/26 Thelma the Unicorn   (John Powell)
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Buy it... for a competent addendum to John Powell's impressive writing style for animated films of the 2020's, the quality commendable for this silly topic.
Avoid it... if you cannot forgive a dissatisfying, short album presentation that omits well more than half of this score in favor of the soundtrack's plethora of songs.
5/12/26 Society of the Snow   (Michael Giacchino)
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Buy it... for upwards of 20 minutes of emotionally engaging music in this work's more hopeful passages, even if those cues are somewhat simplistic and derivative.
Avoid it... if you have little tolerance for Michael Giacchino's tendency to overplay dissonant crescendos on strings and voices, that technique battering this score far too often.
5/10/26 The Golden Child   (John Barry/Michel Colombier)
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Buy it... on the one album containing the film's rejected and final scores to hear John Barry music that would sound at home in an average James Bond film of the early 1980's.
Avoid it... on that same product to save yourself the torture that will result from hearing Michel Colombier's tired synthetic emulation and absolutely wretched orchestral action.
5/8/26 Fandango   (Alan Silvestri)
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Buy it... on its lone, rare album if you seek to complete your collection of early Alan Silvestri film scores of orchestral substance, even if it's not particularly memorable and was largely rejected from the film.
Avoid it... and seek the composer's later, better-developed evolution of the same ideas in comedy and action flicks over the subsequent decade.
5/6/26 The Package   (James Newton Howard)
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Buy it... for over twenty minutes of rousing, Jerry Goldsmith-inspired action from James Newton Howard, a very early transition to orchestral ensembles in feature soundtracks for the composer.
Avoid it... because of the entire central portion of the score, which is rooted in ambient electronic textures and highly dated pop-oriented infusions of unneeded contemporary coolness.
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