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9/5/26 Scream   (Marco Beltrami)
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Buy it... on the ridiculed 1998 album if you seek just a small but surprisingly adequate taste of the most memorable Marco Beltrami cues from the first two scores in the Scream franchise.
Avoid it... on the longer products if you expect the stock suspense and horror material from Scream to compete favorably with its contemporaries or, for that matter, its own sequels.
9/3/26 Masters of the Universe   (Daniel Pemberton)
Updated Review, With Additional Album
Buy it... because your love of 1980's rock is greater than your dedication to the original cartoon's musical style, the evolution in this adaptation playing towards the decade of the concept's origin rather than the concept itself.
Avoid it... because it's dumb parody music by design, meant to be over-the-top in its love affair with an irrelevant sound in an attempt to woo Generation X males.
9/1/26 Let Them All Talk   (Thomas Newman)
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Buy it... on the very brief score-only album if you are attempting to complete a soundtrack of the wildly diverse collection of songs and score you heard in the film.
Avoid it... if you expect the attractive 1960's jazz to occupy enough of this score to recommend for a Thomas Newman collector, many other cues resorting to the composer's lesser, ambient techniques.
8/30/26 Pet Sematary (2019)   (Christopher Young)
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Buy it... for only its morbidly peaceful family theme, a subdued, keyboarded identity of sadness that occupies about ten minutes of this score without much evolution.
Avoid it... if you desire only the most creative horror textures of Christopher Young, his approach to this story less inventive and completely absent his famous gothic touch.
8/28/26 A Man Called Otto   (Thomas Newman)
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Buy it... for Thomas Newman's typically quirky instrumental approach to dramatic personal stories, this one capturing the cantankerous nature of the main character well.
Avoid it... if the attraction of these Newman scores for you is their accessible thematic highlights, such moments sparing in this less appealing variation of the same soundscape.
8/26/26 The Offering   (Christopher Young)
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Buy it... if you require highly disturbing and manipulated horror music for the purposes of annoying your roommates and neighbors or, if legal in your jurisdiction, utilizing for psychological testing on animals.
Avoid it... if only a few minutes of tonally accessible, gothic resolution at the end is worth the laughably painful expressions of outrage and despair comprising the rest of the score.
8/24/26 White Bird   (Thomas Newman)
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Buy it... to hear a predictable extension of Thomas Newman's soundscapes from Tolkien, this score providing similar melodic highlights with the composer's unusual but familiar instrumental processing.
Avoid it... if the simple and uncomplicated constructs and personality of Marcelo Zarvos' score for the prior film in the franchise are more in tune with your expectations.
8/22/26 The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes   (Miklós Rózsa)
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Buy it... on the 2007 re-recorded album for a vibrant and complete presentation of the concert-inspired music that Miklós Rózsa intended to write and adapt for the longer version of this film.
Avoid it... on the 2013 album and instead explore the 2021 follow-up for the best available product featuring the original recording in much poorer mono sound.
8/20/26 The Night Digger   (Bernard Herrmann)
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Buy it... for familiar thriller techniques from Bernard Herrmann, his mix of strings, harp, and harmonica offering a challenging blend of suspense and sickly romance.
Avoid it... if you're hoping that any of the facets of this music can compete with Herrmann's better incarnations of the same ideas in other works.
8/18/26 The Golden Voyage of Sinbad   (Miklós Rózsa)
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Buy it... for a technically precise and highly proficient adventure score from Miklós Rózsa, with fiercely loyal, all-new themes battling constantly from start to finish.
Avoid it... if you demand to hear either the melodic identities or memorable passion of excitement from Bernard Herrmann's 1958 predecessor continue into this sequel.
8/16/26 Endless Night   (Bernard Herrmann)
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Buy it... for a faithful re-recording of a creepy and somber Bernard Herrmann examination of doomed romance, his melodies deceptively styled with constant hints of atonality but still accessible.
Avoid it... if you desire the original film recording of the score, which remains unreleased, or seek a greater presence of the composer's outright thriller mode.
8/14/26 Providence   (Miklós Rózsa)
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Buy it... for ten to fifteen minutes of trademark Miklós Rózsa romance of a melancholy nature, the tone of this film and score restrained by its highly disturbed majority.
Avoid it... unless you have an understanding of why the score is so discordant, because the film's sudden personality shift is reflected in the music's abrupt evolution from dissonant haze to flowery delight.
8/12/26 Sisters   (Bernard Herrmann)
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Buy it... for an intellectually intriguing but casually challenging listening experience as Bernard Herrmann converges two lines of musical action to denote a psychotic connection between formerly conjoined twins.
Avoid it... if the composer's usually adept handling of narratives is your interest, because this score intentionally loses focus of its identities by its end.
8/10/26 The Private Files of J. Edgar Hoover   (Miklós Rózsa)
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Buy it... only to complete your collection of Miklós Rózsa's final half dozen scores of the late 1970's and early 1980's, this entry highlighted by overwrought dramatic zeal for a famed government spook.
Avoid it... if you have little tolerance for Rózsa's inability to modulate the tone of his music, because the brazen zeal with which he applies a fanfare to J. Edgar Hoover is almost comically misplaced.
8/8/26 High Road to China   (John Barry)
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Buy it... if you are an unreserved enthusiast of John Barry's lush and occasionally soaring romance themes and rhythmic action motifs, no matter their relatively stagnant foundations.
Avoid it... if you expect an ounce of originality from Barry in this score, for what you receive is a clear cross between Raise the Titanic and Out of Africa.
8/6/26 It's Alive   (Bernard Herrmann)
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Buy it... only if you are an enthusiast of the mutant baby franchise, this music a demented expression of horror without any convincing relief for the family element.
Avoid it... if Bernard Herrmann's extremely unique structures and orchestration cannot compensate for a rather lousy thematic narrative and poor, monoaural sound.
8/4/26 Time After Time   (Miklós Rózsa)
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Buy it... to hear the final truly engaging combination of finely-tuned suspense, raging action, and overwhelming romance in Miklós Rózsa's career.
Avoid it... on the product featuring the film recording and instead seek the more affordable and better-sounding options with the original album recording if you are a casual listener.
8/2/26 Obsession   (Bernard Herrmann)
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Buy it... on its robust re-recording to hear Bernard Herrmann's nostalgic tribute to Vertigo in superior sound quality, a closing love letter to the composer's romantic suspense mode.
Avoid it... on even its admirable 2015 release of the original recording if you expect the melodies in this fine but not infallible score to rival those of its inspiration.
7/31/26 Eye of the Needle   (Miklós Rózsa)
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Buy it... for its smartly manipulated blend of brutal espionage-appropriate suspense, tense explosions for murder, and melodramatic love theme of yesteryear.
Avoid it... if you could be bothered by Miklós Rózsa's inability to modulate his unyielding romantic tendencies at a denouement that needed a far less grandiose farewell.
7/29/26 Taxi Driver   (Bernard Herrmann)
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Buy it... for a fascinatingly disparate coda to the career of Bernard Herrmann, his bluesy theme for the romantic side of the tale a strikingly refreshing change of pace for the composer.
Avoid it... if you expect that lighter fare to blend effectively with the composer's oppressively dark and militaristic style and motifs for the rest of the score, the narrative suffering from Herrmann's inability to bring all these facets together convincingly.
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