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May/June 2026
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5/12/26
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Society of the Snow (Michael Giacchino)
All New Review
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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.
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| 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.
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5/10/26
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The Golden Child (John Barry/Michel Colombier)
All New Review
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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.
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| 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.
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5/8/26
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Fandango (Alan Silvestri)
All New Review
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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.
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| Avoid it... |
and seek the composer's later, better-developed evolution of the same ideas in comedy and action flicks over the subsequent
decade.
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5/6/26
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The Package (James Newton Howard)
All New Review
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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.
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| 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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5/4/26
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All is True (Patrick Doyle)
All New Review
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| Buy it... |
for a very understated, bare-bones Patrick Doyle drama that relies mostly upon the composer's own solo piano performances
for its appeal.
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| Avoid it... |
if you expect any semblance of passion, intensity, or even much drama in this extremely sparse and thematically wayward
music.
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5/2/26
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The Delta Force (Alan Silvestri)
All New Review
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only if you can forgive the embarrassingly dated and tone deaf personality that Alan Silvestri brought to this cinematic
wet dream action fantasy.
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| Avoid it... |
on any of its various albums unless you seek evidence as to why synthetic pop-oriented scores of the 1980's can cause
facepalms in retrospect.
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