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Ratings Indices

• General Information

• All Listings

(the master ranks)

• Modern Cinema

(1988 - 2025)

• Classic Cinema

(1930 - 1987)

• Television

(all years)

• Miscellaneous

(dual albums, concerts,
compilations, games, etc.)

• Reviews by Title

• Reviews by Year

(sorted by the year of
each album's release)

CLASSIC SOUNDTRACKS (1930 - 1987)

(see "General Information" at left for update schedules)

	Title	Composer(s)	Avg.	Total	1-Star	2-Star	3-Star	4-Star	5-Star
1.	Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back	John Williams	4.297	9,750	388	398	1,080	1,950	5,934
2.	E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial	John Williams	4.292	8,400	389	316	826	1,788	5,081
3.	Raiders of the Lost Ark	John Williams	4.255	6,572	308	273	782	1,278	3,931
4.	Star Wars: A New Hope	John Williams	4.238	17,667	656	1,188	1,995	3,290	10,538
5.	Superman: The Movie	John Williams	4.205	4,255	227	240	386	984	2,418
6.	Conan the Barbarian	Basil Poledouris	4.192	2,130	138	112	202	428	1,250
7.	Star Wars: Return of the Jedi	John Williams	4.161	10,907	356	705	1,257	3,098	5,491
8.	Hoosiers	Jerry Goldsmith	4.153	2,495	181	124	244	530	1,416
9.	Superman IV: The Quest for Peace	Alexander Courage, John Williams	4.135	260	10	20	35	55	140
10.	Vertigo	Bernard Herrmann	4.127	2,038	152	123	189	424	1,150
11.	Star Trek: The Motion Picture	Jerry Goldsmith	4.127	3,897	175	223	559	915	2,025
12.	Jaws	John Williams	4.123	2,069	134	120	235	448	1,132
13.	Back to the Future	Alan Silvestri	4.120	1,014	88	65	91	163	607
14.	The Lion in Winter	John Barry	4.120	1,511	99	73	191	333	815
15.	The Living Daylights	John Barry	4.114	1,282	80	92	140	260	710
16.	Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan	James Horner	4.090	1,529	92	96	180	376	785
17.	The Omen	Jerry Goldsmith	4.080	722	31	48	103	190	350
18.	Raise the Titanic	John Barry	4.075	2,209	138	140	250	572	1,109
19.	Under Fire	Jerry Goldsmith	4.072	1,128	57	75	148	298	550
20.	Dune	Toto	4.024	13,771	1,376	888	1,654	1,968	7,885
21.	The Dark Crystal	Trevor Jones	4.003	1,245	85	89	175	284	612
22.	The Mission	Ennio Morricone	3.998	578	35	48	82	131	282
23.	The Wind and the Lion	Jerry Goldsmith	3.989	560	37	40	75	148	260
24.	Lionheart	Jerry Goldsmith	3.962	586	28	50	95	156	257
25.	Rocky	Bill Conti	3.960	500	64	40	43	58	295
26.	The Black Stallion Returns	Georges Delerue	3.959	319	19	21	47	99	133
27.	Cleopatra	Alex North	3.952	1,110	100	86	143	219	562
28.	Out of Africa	John Barry	3.952	502	34	40	75	120	233
29.	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom	John Williams	3.952	1,250	90	115	160	285	600
30.	High Road to China	John Barry	3.949	1,421	97	96	213	392	623
31.	Silverado	Bruce Broughton	3.937	316	31	21	43	63	158
32.	Poltergeist	Jerry Goldsmith	3.936	2,916	140	192	503	960	1,121
33.	The Godfather Part II	Nino Rota, Carmine Coppola	3.908	510	35	48	74	125	228
34.	Patton	Jerry Goldsmith	3.864	1,121	76	95	182	320	448
35.	The Godfather	Nino Rota	3.864	604	52	55	83	147	267
36.	The Towering Inferno	John Williams	3.844	1,027	77	96	155	281	418
37.	The Final Conflict	Jerry Goldsmith	3.839	323	30	31	46	70	146
38.	Predator	Alan Silvestri	3.824	1,492	97	128	286	410	571
39.	An American Tail	James Horner, Barry Mann	3.813	518	27	55	96	150	190
40.	Somewhere in Time	John Barry	3.807	445	20	47	91	128	159
41.	Cherry 2000	Basil Poledouris	3.807	429	39	28	66	140	156
42.	First Blood	Jerry Goldsmith	3.805	672	31	60	133	233	215
43.	Rambo: First Blood Part II	Jerry Goldsmith	3.783	1,302	66	100	277	467	392
44.	Cocoon	James Horner	3.761	892	71	85	163	240	333
45.	Born Free	John Barry	3.742	792	76	82	145	156	333
46.	Twilight Zone: The Movie	Jerry Goldsmith	3.724	692	35	76	155	205	221
47.	Flesh + Blood	Basil Poledouris	3.716	552	43	52	110	161	186
48.	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	John Williams	3.709	2,536	196	263	500	700	877
49.	Battle Beyond the Stars	James Horner	3.683	562	53	62	96	150	201
50.	The Fury	John Williams	3.659	604	46	62	131	178	187
51.	The Last Valley	John Barry	3.653	802	63	82	166	250	241
52.	The Natural	Randy Newman	3.651	238	20	30	43	65	80
53.	Body Heat	John Barry	3.636	1,070	106	128	181	290	365
54.	Airplane!	Elmer Bernstein	3.628	336	41	33	56	86	120
55.	Night Crossing	Jerry Goldsmith	3.611	296	32	34	56	69	105
56.	Young Sherlock Holmes	Bruce Broughton	3.584	125	8	17	29	36	35
57.	Wild Rovers	Jerry Goldsmith	3.583	72	6	7	16	25	18
58.	Hellraiser	Christopher Young	3.568	148	8	20	36	48	36
59.	Krull	James Horner	3.546	1,151	95	148	272	306	330
60.	Godzilla	Akira Ifukube	3.544	1,083	145	131	192	220	395
61.	Capricorn One	Jerry Goldsmith	3.544	287	29	35	64	69	90
62.	Jaws 2	John Williams	3.538	604	63	85	113	150	193
63.	The Untouchables	Ennio Morricone	3.535	144	9	20	35	45	35
64.	Gremlins	Jerry Goldsmith	3.529	1,460	124	178	361	395	402
65.	The Fly	Howard Shore	3.525	282	26	35	62	83	76
66.	A View to a Kill	John Barry	3.514	946	87	116	212	286	245
67.	The Secret of N.I.M.H.	Jerry Goldsmith	3.503	660	65	86	146	178	185
68.	A Patch of Blue	Jerry Goldsmith	3.502	414	38	55	95	113	113
69.	The Cowboys	John Williams	3.500	128	11	17	28	41	31
70.	Papillon	Jerry Goldsmith	3.489	139	10	21	34	39	35
71.	Ghostbusters	Elmer Bernstein	3.483	445	39	60	111	117	118
72.	Splash	Lee Holdridge	3.482	535	53	64	123	162	133
73.	Brazil	Michael Kamen	3.481	135	10	20	32	41	32
74.	Beverly Hills Cop	Harold Faltermeyer	3.480	148	14	18	35	45	36
75.	One Little Indian	Jerry Goldsmith	3.474	76	6	11	17	25	17
76.	Big Wednesday	Basil Poledouris	3.453	327	42	37	65	97	86
77.	Chinatown	Jerry Goldsmith, Phillip Lambro	3.449	158	12	26	38	43	39
78.	The Flight of the Phoenix	Frank DeVol	3.449	78	7	12	18	21	20
79.	Damien: Omen II	Jerry Goldsmith	3.449	234	27	35	50	50	72
80.	The Princess Bride	Mark Knopfler	3.443	361	55	42	69	78	117
81.	Empire of the Sun	John Williams	3.437	506	37	77	131	150	111
82.	The Boys from Brazil	Jerry Goldsmith	3.434	272	30	38	62	68	74
83.	Explorers	Jerry Goldsmith	3.431	297	30	50	63	70	84
84.	Aliens	James Horner	3.431	1,646	175	215	410	418	428
85.	Octopussy	John Barry	3.427	611	54	88	160	161	148
86.	The Black Cauldron	Elmer Bernstein	3.426	317	43	43	60	78	93
87.	The Reivers	John Williams	3.414	99	8	15	25	30	21
88.	Planet of the Apes	Jerry Goldsmith	3.412	165	15	25	42	43	40
89.	The Black Hole	John Barry	3.409	225	28	31	50	53	63
90.	Platoon	Georges Delerue	3.406	138	12	20	34	44	28
91.	The Witches of Eastwick	John Williams	3.403	660	72	90	158	180	160
92.	Rio Conchos	Jerry Goldsmith	3.400	901	81	132	235	252	201
93.	Take a Hard Ride	Jerry Goldsmith	3.395	863	70	130	245	225	193
94.	The Return of a Man Called Horse	Laurence Rosenthal	3.394	312	39	40	67	91	75
95.	The Comancheros	Elmer Bernstein	3.392	674	65	100	178	168	163
96.	The Lord of the Rings	Leonard Rosenman	3.378	920	104	145	207	227	237
97.	Innerspace	Jerry Goldsmith	3.377	446	42	70	118	110	106
98.	The Black Stallion	Carmine Coppola, Shirley Walker	3.374	468	78	61	75	116	138
99.	Halloween	John Carpenter	3.371	741	102	121	136	164	218
100.	The Beastmaster	Lee Holdridge	3.361	83	7	14	21	24	17
101.	Supergirl	Jerry Goldsmith	3.354	288	38	43	64	65	78
102.	The Journey of Natty Gann	James Horner, Elmer Bernstein	3.349	166	28	20	31	40	47
103.	Last Embrace	Miklós Rózsa	3.349	195	21	30	45	58	41
104.	Extreme Prejudice	Jerry Goldsmith	3.330	581	67	80	151	160	123
105.	The Last Starfighter	Craig Safan	3.326	319	38	50	74	84	73
106.	Pee-wee's Big Adventure	Danny Elfman	3.326	408	46	67	90	118	87
107.	The Funhouse	John Beal	3.320	169	19	27	40	47	36
108.	King Kong Lives	John Scott	3.313	323	51	42	63	89	78
109.	Die Nibelungen	Rolf Wilhelm	3.302	149	28	17	26	38	40
110.	Dracula	John Williams	3.281	235	28	40	56	60	51
111.	Alien	Jerry Goldsmith	3.273	755	93	151	158	163	190
112.	The Salamander	Jerry Goldsmith	3.270	100	10	18	27	25	20
113.	North Sea Hijack (Ffolkes)	Michael J. Lewis	3.263	175	24	27	41	45	38
114.	Robin and Marian	John Barry, Richard Shores	3.261	663	76	111	173	170	133
115.	King Solomon's Mines	Jerry Goldsmith	3.233	300	46	50	63	70	71
116.	Monte Walsh	John Barry	3.227	591	85	91	146	143	126
117.	The Swarm	Jerry Goldsmith	3.226	978	131	170	237	227	213
118.	Fantastic Voyage	Leonard Rosenman	3.224	156	24	23	41	30	38
119.	The Goonies	Dave Grusin	3.223	358	45	65	89	83	76
120.	Ice Station Zebra	Michel Legrand	3.220	337	57	48	70	88	74
121.	The Great Train Robbery	Jerry Goldsmith	3.213	221	29	41	50	56	45
122.	The River	John Williams	3.208	308	35	60	80	72	61
123.	Legend	Jerry Goldsmith	3.206	1,076	150	201	243	241	241
124.	The Bride	Maurice Jarre	3.206	262	46	45	50	51	70
125.	Poltergeist II: The Other Side	Jerry Goldsmith	3.205	435	59	79	104	100	93
126.	Marie Ward	Elmer Bernstein	3.198	464	67	79	110	111	97
127.	Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome	Maurice Jarre	3.195	267	35	52	63	60	57
128.	The Poseidon Adventure	John Williams	3.193	627	85	108	162	145	127
129.	SpaceCamp	John Williams	3.176	414	58	77	100	92	87
130.	Islands in the Stream	Jerry Goldsmith	3.175	252	35	46	62	58	51
131.	Breakheart Pass	Jerry Goldsmith	3.172	151	21	26	38	38	28
132.	Rocky II	Bill Conti	3.171	152	23	26	34	40	29
133.	The Conversation	David Shire	3.169	301	42	56	75	65	63
134.	The Flim-Flam Man	Jerry Goldsmith	3.159	328	46	58	85	76	63
135.	The Sword and the Sorcerer	David Whitaker	3.150	367	52	73	86	80	76
136.	RoboCop	Basil Poledouris	3.148	603	79	118	158	131	117
137.	Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend	Jerry Goldsmith	3.146	268	38	53	65	56	56
138.	Rocky III	Bill Conti	3.145	138	20	26	35	28	29
139.	Top Gun	Harold Faltermeyer, Giorgio Moroder	3.142	155	31	20	32	40	32
140.	Scarface	Giorgio Moroder	3.139	115	14	23	31	27	20
141.	Breakout	Jerry Goldsmith	3.138	334	45	65	90	67	67
142.	100 Rifles	Jerry Goldsmith	3.118	610	77	128	163	130	112
143.	Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	James Horner	3.118	951	136	193	232	203	187
144.	Stagecoach	Jerry Goldsmith	3.100	628	76	131	185	126	110
145.	Heartbeeps	John Williams	3.096	374	62	76	80	76	80
146.	Das Boot	Klaus Doldinger	3.095	169	24	34	46	32	33
147.	The Right Stuff	Bill Conti	3.085	164	32	28	34	34	36
148.	Friday the 13th	Harry Manfredini	3.083	96	12	18	28	26	12
149.	Monsignor	John Williams	3.076	238	35	47	62	53	41
150.	The Last Run	Jerry Goldsmith	3.075	80	10	16	24	18	12
151.	The Name of the Rose	James Horner	3.073	220	57	31	31	41	60
152.	Masters of the Universe	Bill Conti	3.073	482	80	93	112	106	91
153.	Family Plot	John Williams	3.068	192	30	40	45	41	36
154.	Players	Jerry Goldsmith	3.066	211	31	43	56	43	38
155.	Trading Places	Elmer Bernstein	3.064	78	12	16	20	15	15
156.	The Terminator	Brad Fiedel	3.061	457	77	89	112	87	92
157.	Excalibur	Trevor Jones	3.054	148	30	26	30	30	32
158.	Psycho II	Jerry Goldsmith	3.051	253	45	47	63	46	52
159.	Black Sunday	John Williams	3.050	323	41	72	90	70	50
160.	Something Wicked This Way Comes	James Horner, Georges Delerue	3.049	286	47	57	67	65	50
161.	Peggy Sue Got Married	John Barry	3.048	62	8	13	19	12	10
162.	Superman III	Ken Thorne	3.048	210	35	50	45	30	50
163.	Red Sonja	Ennio Morricone	3.045	330	60	62	71	77	60
164.	Rocky IV	Vince DiCola	3.045	111	12	26	32	27	14
165.	1941	John Williams	3.043	277	53	51	60	57	56
166.	The Eiger Sanction	John Williams	3.041	147	17	31	46	35	18
167.	Brainstorm	James Horner	3.033	180	38	26	43	38	35
168.	Midway	John Williams	3.031	255	35	60	65	52	43
169.	Mad Max	Brian May	3.025	157	35	32	23	28	39
170.	WarGames	Arthur B. Rubinstein	3.022	91	14	19	24	19	15
171.	MacArthur	Jerry Goldsmith	3.018	164	27	34	40	35	28
172.	The Karate Kid	Bill Conti	3.015	273	42	58	74	52	47
173.	Bite the Bullet	Alex North	3.000	418	74	85	103	79	77
174.	Crocodile Dundee	Peter Best	3.000	103	14	23	30	21	15
175.	Logan's Run	Jerry Goldsmith	3.000	91	13	20	25	20	13
176.	Wisdom	Danny Elfman	3.000	81	10	15	31	15	10
177.	Gorky Park	James Horner	2.994	163	30	31	42	30	30
178.	Escape From New York	John Carpenter, Alan Howarth	2.992	133	19	28	38	31	17
179.	Inchon	Jerry Goldsmith	2.992	263	43	58	65	52	45
180.	Beverly Hills Cop II	Harold Faltermeyer	2.976	123	19	27	34	24	19
181.	Chariots of Fire	Vangelis	2.975	720	214	155	45	47	259
182.	Nineteen Eighty-Four	Dominic Muldowney	2.974	505	89	115	113	96	92
183.	Red Dawn	Basil Poledouris	2.961	179	34	35	42	40	28
184.	Cinderella Liberty	John Williams	2.959	122	17	28	36	25	16
185.	The Other	Jerry Goldsmith	2.958	48	7	11	13	11	6
186.	Ace Eli and Rodger of the Skies	Jerry Goldsmith	2.955	67	10	14	20	15	8
187.	The Challenge	Jerry Goldsmith	2.950	337	59	80	82	51	65
188.	Blade Runner	Vangelis	2.942	737	177	128	143	139	150
189.	*batteries not included	James Horner	2.935	169	27	40	45	31	26
190.	Testament	James Horner	2.932	191	41	35	43	40	32
191.	Howard the Duck	John Barry, Sylvester Levay	2.928	69	12	15	18	14	10
192.	Big Trouble in Little China	John Carpenter, Alan Howarth	2.920	552	99	125	139	99	90
193.	Uncommon Valor	James Horner	2.917	193	35	42	48	40	28
194.	Coma	Jerry Goldsmith	2.915	130	26	28	30	23	23
195.	Outland	Jerry Goldsmith	2.915	328	60	76	79	58	55
196.	Ransom (The Terrorists)	Jerry Goldsmith	2.907	86	14	19	24	19	10
197.	Tootsie	Dave Grusin	2.904	239	45	54	58	43	39
198.	Apocalypse Now	Carmine Coppola, Various	2.901	131	30	28	24	23	26
199.	The Ballad of Cable Hogue	Jerry Goldsmith	2.889	45	7	10	14	9	5
200.	The Reincarnation of Peter Proud	Jerry Goldsmith	2.887	97	15	23	28	20	11
201.	The Rose Tattoo	Alex North	2.886	114	31	17	19	28	19
202.	Forbidden Zone	Danny Elfman	2.882	102	26	17	22	17	20
203.	Summer School	Danny Elfman	2.878	98	15	22	31	20	10
204.	Project X	James Horner	2.862	304	57	70	78	56	43
205.	Wolfen	James Horner, Craig Safan	2.861	208	45	47	43	38	35
206.	The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing	John Williams, Michel Legrand	2.860	107	16	28	30	21	12
207.	Throw Momma From the Train	David Newman	2.856	111	20	26	30	20	15
208.	Commando	James Horner	2.854	540	103	125	145	82	85
209.	Earthquake	John Williams	2.847	124	21	30	35	23	15
210.	Damnation Alley	Jerry Goldsmith	2.841	88	14	22	26	16	10
211.	Raggedy Man	Jerry Goldsmith	2.827	220	42	48	63	40	27
212.	The Missouri Breaks	John Williams	2.813	830	170	195	196	158	111
213.	Under the Volcano	Alex North	2.806	124	30	30	21	20	23
214.	Superman II	Ken Thorne	2.800	200	50	40	40	40	30
215.	The Cassandra Crossing	Jerry Goldsmith	2.798	84	14	21	25	16	8
216.	Twilight's Last Gleaming	Jerry Goldsmith	2.787	188	39	46	46	30	27
217.	The Sugarland Express	John Williams	2.787	122	20	35	31	23	13
218.	Tora! Tora! Tora!	Jerry Goldsmith	2.786	56	10	15	14	11	6
219.	The Karate Kid: Part II	Bill Conti	2.772	114	18	31	34	21	10
220.	The Paper Chase	John Williams	2.769	104	17	28	31	18	10
221.	Mad Max 2 (The Road Warrior)	Brian May	2.767	120	27	28	28	20	17
222.	Conan the Destroyer	Basil Poledouris	2.728	651	132	178	158	101	82
223.	Caboblanco	Jerry Goldsmith	2.725	171	36	45	40	30	20
224.	Rio Lobo	Jerry Goldsmith	2.703	64	12	18	17	11	6
225.	The Lady in Red	James Horner	2.693	75	15	20	20	13	7
226.	The Traveling Executioner	Jerry Goldsmith	2.689	74	14	20	21	13	6
227.	Magic	Jerry Goldsmith	2.686	746	190	177	166	103	110
228.	High Velocity	Jerry Goldsmith	2.686	102	21	28	25	18	10
229.	Pete 'n' Tillie	John Williams	2.678	115	23	31	31	20	10
230.	The Man	Jerry Goldsmith	2.667	63	12	18	17	11	5
231.	Romancing the Stone	Alan Silvestri	2.658	456	145	103	62	55	91
232.	Dragonslayer	Alex North	2.616	375	151	62	27	50	85
233.	Where the River Runs Black	James Horner	2.591	164	50	35	31	28	20
234.	Link	Jerry Goldsmith	2.574	310	85	77	70	41	37
235.	Tron	Wendy Carlos	2.542	601	180	148	120	73	80
236.	The Lonely Guy	Jerry Goldsmith	2.489	94	23	27	25	13	6
237.	The Long Goodbye	John Williams	2.475	118	30	35	28	17	8
238.	Deadly Blessing	James Horner	2.471	87	21	28	21	10	7
239.	Shamus	Jerry Goldsmith	2.463	82	20	25	21	11	5
240.	Ladyhawke	Andrew Powell	2.449	379	138	89	54	40	58
241.	Escape From the Planet of the Apes	Jerry Goldsmith	2.420	69	18	23	15	7	6
242.	The Don is Dead	Jerry Goldsmith	2.361	72	19	25	16	7	5
243.	The Mephisto Waltz	Jerry Goldsmith	2.349	63	19	20	12	7	5
244.	THX 1138	Lalo Schifrin	2.319	433	165	108	63	51	46
245.	Runaway	Jerry Goldsmith	2.316	253	92	68	40	27	26
246.	Images	John Williams	2.260	104	40	28	17	7	12
247.	Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home	Leonard Rosenman	2.257	627	243	163	96	67	58
248.	48 Hrs.	James Horner	2.242	190	75	47	31	21	16
249.	Humanoids From the Deep	James Horner	2.210	138	52	38	23	17	8
250.	*SPYS**	Jerry Goldsmith	2.164	73	27	23	12	6	5

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