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1/19/26 Freedomland   (James Newton Howard)
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Buy it... if a few, fleeting and depressing lyrical highlights can sustain an otherwise indecisive, largely atmospheric score of understatement.
Avoid it... if you expect James Newton Howard to address either the story's characters or the underlying racial tensions adequately, neither aspect satisfying in the end.
1/17/26 Mrs. Winterbourne   (Patrick Doyle)
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Buy it... to appreciate the two distinct personalities guiding the same general thematic construct through a soft environment of dramatic ease.
Avoid it... if you appreciate your Patrick Doyle scores for their consistency, this one meandering into source-like jazz and blues material with distracting results.
1/15/26 Blown Away   (Alan Silvestri)
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Buy it... to assemble ten or so minutes of militaristic highlights and several passages of melodic grace, some of which not original to Alan Silvestri but still gorgeous, especially in their choral element.
Avoid it... if satisfyingly developed narratives are your interest, because Silvestri's two primary themes battle endlessly, repetitively, and often unpleasantly in an oppressive suspense environment.
1/13/26 The Lookout   (James Newton Howard)
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Buy it... for the warmth and occasional attitude of James Newton Howard's guitar-driven themes for the main character, the highlights of this work worth bypassing the bulk of suspense material.
Avoid it... if ten minutes of emotive and inspiring highlights from those contemporary stylings cannot merit an otherwise dull and forgettable remainder.
1/11/26 A Little Princess   (Patrick Doyle)
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Buy it... for Patrick Doyle's lovely lyricism conveyed through orchestral beauty and girls' vocals, this work embodying the composer's romantic inclinations well.
Avoid it... if you've never been able to truly reconcile the strong influence of Indian instrumentation in this fairy tale musical environment, the mix of cultures in the soundscape not as comfortable as it could have been.
1/9/26 The Sum of All Fears   (Jerry Goldsmith)
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Buy it... if you seek Jerry Goldsmith's last robust action score along with an unusually prominent contribution of original and source songs heard in the film.
Avoid it... if you expect more than fifteen minutes of truly unique, choral and solo vocal music from Goldsmith in a score otherwise defined by its occasional bursts of the composer's trademark action and predictable suspense material.
1/7/26 The Hunt for Red October   (Basil Poledouris)
Updated Review, With Additional Album
Buy it... only on the 2025 expanded set to hear this score in satisfying sound quality, Basil Poledouris' intelligent blend of orchestra, synthetics, and choir yielding a uniquely dynamic sonic environment.
Avoid it... if you expect the full score to match its memorable highlights due to the studio's withholding of the money needed to record pivotal cues with an orchestra.
1/5/26 Richie Rich   (Alan Silvestri)
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Buy it... for its brief moments of dramatic redemption late, the remainder perfectly functional but tending to dwell on repetitive statements of the main theme for the entitled little shit of a main character.
Avoid it... if you always value Alan Silvestri's action music, even in the children's genre, because that mode is disappointingly emasculated in this unyieldingly chipper score.
1/3/26 The Great Debaters   (James Newton Howard/Peter Golub)
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Buy it... for the respectfully conservative mood this score generates, its pleasantly anonymous demeanor serving the story well without striving for any melodrama.
Avoid it... if you want to remember any of it after it's done playing, the tandem of composers instructed to restrain the gravity of the music to an extent that it could be considered lifeless.
1/1/26 Une Femme Française   (Patrick Doyle)
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Buy it... for predictably pretty Patrick Doyle drama on strings and woodwinds, the melodies of this work somber but serving the story well.
Avoid it... if you demand passion and resonance in your scores of this genre, this music's performances sometimes mechanical and lacking any true romantic spark.
12/30/25 The Quick and the Dead   (Alan Silvestri)
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Buy it... for a flamboyant parody of Ennio Morricone's Western flavor at its prime, with no holds barred by Alan Silvestri as he pilfers that spaghetti Western sound with zeal.
Avoid it... if tact is your aim, and you can't help but roll your eyes at how distractingly present this music can be in the redundant scenes of gunfighting during the film.
12/28/25 Parkland   (James Newton Howard)
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Buy it... for only five to eight minutes of respectfully accessible highlights of minimal patriotism, the tone of this score instead seeking to dwell in the nightmarish horrors of the tragic day in American history.
Avoid it... if James Newton Howard's brooding atmospheric mode for suspense and drama has never appealed to you, because that sound dominates the disheartening personality of this work.
12/26/25 Exit to Eden   (Patrick Doyle)
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Buy it... only if you can forgive Patrick Doyle for an early strategic misfire in his career, the comedy of this score ineffective and light drama not long enough to maintain interest.
Avoid it... if you love a good parody score, because this one fails to achieve the needed cheeky extravagance in attitude that this film's plot really needed.
12/24/25 Father of the Bride Part II   (Alan Silvestri)
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Buy it... for a direct extension of the songs and score you heard in the previous film, the equation almost identical for this equally pleasant sequel.
Avoid it... for all the same reasons, for Alan Silvestri's romantic comedy mode of this caliber is perfectly serviceable but not really remarkable at any given moment.
12/22/25 Pawn Sacrifice   (James Newton Howard)
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Buy it... for only the opening and closing ten minutes of minimally rendered but accessibly pleasant orchestral drama.
Avoid it... if you have no interest in hearing a dull musical representation of the paranoid delusions experienced by the film's main character.
12/20/25 Carlito's Way   (Patrick Doyle)
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Buy it... for a surprisingly thoughtful and dramatic orchestral expression of somber defeat, one of the most elegiac entries in the organized crime genre.
Avoid it... if you expect any of the Caribbean personality of the movie's songs to influence the score, though Patrick Doyle does counter with an impressive action motif of rhythmic force for the climactic chase scene.
12/18/25 Father of the Bride   (Alan Silvestri)
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Buy it... if your appreciation of the soundtrack in the film includes the many references to traditional tunes commonly associated with weddings and can adopt Alan Silvestri's fluffy original score by association.
Avoid it... if you need more substance to your romantic comedy music, Silvestri providing exactly what this film needs but doing so without adding much memorable distinction.
12/16/25 Nightcrawler   (James Newton Howard)
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Buy it... only if you are familiar with the morbidly sick personality of the film itself, because James Newton Howard's score reflects the mental instability of the lead character in ways that otherwise won't make sense.
Avoid it... in its full album form unless you can tolerate a healthy portion of gloomy synthetic atmospheres, the moderately sized and tonal orchestral passages appealing but lost in the surrounding fog of misery.
12/14/25 Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery   (Nathan Johnson)
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Buy it... for its very snazzy highlights, Nathan Johnson improving his game in this franchise with devious orchestral lines of action and complex thematic interplay.
Avoid it... because its narrative loses its glitzy shine after the first third, the thematic statements thereafter convoluted as necessary and not as easily accessible.
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