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September/October 2026
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9/14/26
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The Correspondence (La Corrispondenza) (Ennio Morricone)
All New Review
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| Buy it... |
for an understated but occasionally attractive finale to Ennio Morricone's long musical journey, with one standout cue
highlighting all the best the score has to offer.
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| Avoid it... |
if restrained soundscapes and unmemorable melodies cannot compensate for a stylish exploration of electric guitar so late in the
composer's career.
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9/12/26
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The Age of Innocence (Elmer Bernstein)
All New Review
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for its highly respectful representation of 1870's high society via formal waltzes straight from Elmer Bernstein's Golden Age
roots.
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| Avoid it... |
because there is little overt passion in the many themes at work in the score, the formality of the whole heavily restraining each
idea's potential.
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9/10/26
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Agnes of God (Georges Delerue)
All New Review
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| Buy it... |
for its immensely powerful themes of religious gravity, Georges Delerue writing some of his most resonating career music for this
film.
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| Avoid it... |
if you desire for that melodically graceful, chorally gripping material to occupy more than just a few moments in an otherwise
suspenseful work.
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9/7/26
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The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Ennio Morricone)
All New Review
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| Buy it... |
for its two monumentally classic themes of popular influence, Ennio Morricone striking gold with the flashy highlights of this
counterculture Western score.
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| Avoid it... |
because of most everything else in the score, the bulk of the music far more muted and conservatively rendered for the suffering
in the tale's midsection.
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9/5/26
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Scream (Marco Beltrami)
Updated Review, With Additional Album
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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.
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| 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.
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9/3/26
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Masters of the Universe (Daniel Pemberton)
Updated Review, With Additional Album
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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.
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| 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.
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9/1/26
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Let Them All Talk (Thomas Newman)
All New Review
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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.
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| 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.
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