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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.	E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial	John Williams	4.303	8,370	367	308	826	1,788	5,081
2.	Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back	John Williams	4.291	9,667	388	398	1,080	1,950	5,851
3.	Raiders of the Lost Ark	John Williams	4.252	6,535	307	273	782	1,278	3,895
4.	Star Wars: A New Hope	John Williams	4.237	17,656	656	1,188	1,995	3,290	10,527
5.	Conan the Barbarian	Basil Poledouris	4.222	2,108	121	108	202	428	1,249
6.	Superman: The Movie	John Williams	4.195	4,201	227	239	386	983	2,366
7.	Hoosiers	Jerry Goldsmith	4.186	2,467	157	121	244	530	1,415
8.	Jaws	John Williams	4.168	2,012	137	113	195	396	1,171
9.	Star Wars: Return of the Jedi	John Williams	4.159	10,884	356	705	1,257	3,098	5,468
10.	Vertigo	Bernard Herrmann	4.155	2,019	134	123	189	424	1,149
11.	The Lion in Winter	John Barry	4.150	1,496	85	72	191	333	815
12.	Star Trek: The Motion Picture	Jerry Goldsmith	4.130	3,893	171	223	559	915	2,025
13.	Back to the Future	Alan Silvestri	4.126	1,011	86	65	91	163	606
14.	The Living Daylights	John Barry	4.114	1,282	80	92	140	260	710
15.	Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan	James Horner	4.098	1,525	88	96	180	376	785
16.	The Omen	Jerry Goldsmith	4.085	721	30	48	103	190	350
17.	Raise the Titanic	John Barry	4.075	2,209	138	140	250	572	1,109
18.	Under Fire	Jerry Goldsmith	4.072	1,128	57	75	148	298	550
19.	The Wind and the Lion	Jerry Goldsmith	4.038	551	28	40	75	148	260
20.	The Mission	Ennio Morricone	4.037	568	27	48	82	131	280
21.	Dune	Toto	4.024	13,771	1,376	888	1,654	1,968	7,885
22.	The Dark Crystal	Trevor Jones	4.003	1,245	85	89	175	284	612
23.	Lionheart	Jerry Goldsmith	3.966	584	27	50	95	156	256
24.	Rocky	Bill Conti	3.964	499	64	39	43	58	295
25.	Out of Africa	John Barry	3.960	500	33	40	74	120	233
26.	The Black Stallion Returns	Georges Delerue	3.959	319	19	21	47	99	133
27.	Cleopatra	Alex North	3.958	1,108	98	86	143	219	562
28.	High Road to China	John Barry	3.950	1,420	97	95	213	392	623
29.	Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom	John Williams	3.950	1,234	87	115	160	283	589
30.	Silverado	Bruce Broughton	3.937	315	31	21	43	62	158
31.	Poltergeist	Jerry Goldsmith	3.936	2,916	140	192	503	960	1,121
32.	The Godfather Part II	Nino Rota, Carmine Coppola	3.913	508	34	48	74	124	228
33.	The Godfather	Nino Rota	3.869	603	51	55	83	147	267
34.	Patton	Jerry Goldsmith	3.864	1,121	76	95	182	320	448
35.	First Blood	Jerry Goldsmith	3.847	654	30	56	125	216	227
36.	The Towering Inferno	John Williams	3.843	1,026	77	96	155	281	417
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.	Cherry 2000	Basil Poledouris	3.813	428	38	28	66	140	156
40.	An American Tail	James Horner, Barry Mann	3.813	518	27	55	96	150	190
41.	Somewhere in Time	John Barry	3.804	444	20	47	91	128	158
42.	Rambo: First Blood Part II	Jerry Goldsmith	3.783	1,302	66	100	277	467	392
43.	Cocoon	James Horner	3.761	892	71	85	163	240	333
44.	Born Free	John Barry	3.742	792	76	82	145	156	333
45.	Twilight Zone: The Movie	Jerry Goldsmith	3.724	692	35	76	155	205	221
46.	Flesh + Blood	Basil Poledouris	3.716	552	43	52	110	161	186
47.	Close Encounters of the Third Kind	John Williams	3.712	2,534	194	263	500	700	877
48.	Battle Beyond the Stars	James Horner	3.683	562	53	62	96	150	201
49.	Wild Rovers	Jerry Goldsmith	3.657	70	4	7	16	25	18
50.	The Last Valley	John Barry	3.653	802	63	82	166	250	241
51.	The Fury	John Williams	3.652	601	46	62	131	178	184
52.	The Natural	Randy Newman	3.646	237	20	30	43	65	79
53.	Airplane!	Elmer Bernstein	3.643	333	39	33	56	85	120
54.	Body Heat	John Barry	3.636	1,070	106	128	181	290	365
55.	Night Crossing	Jerry Goldsmith	3.611	296	32	34	56	69	105
56.	Superman IV: The Quest for Peace	Alexander Courage, John Williams	3.596	156	10	20	35	49	42
57.	Hellraiser	Christopher Young	3.578	147	8	19	36	48	36
58.	Beverly Hills Cop	Harold Faltermeyer	3.549	144	10	18	35	45	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.	Young Sherlock Holmes	Bruce Broughton	3.531	113	8	16	27	32	30
65.	Gremlins	Jerry Goldsmith	3.529	1,460	124	178	361	395	402
66.	The Fly	Howard Shore	3.525	282	26	35	62	83	76
67.	Ghostbusters	Elmer Bernstein	3.524	437	32	60	110	117	118
68.	A View to a Kill	John Barry	3.514	946	87	116	212	286	245
69.	A Patch of Blue	Jerry Goldsmith	3.502	414	38	55	95	113	113
70.	The Cowboys	John Williams	3.496	127	11	17	28	40	31
71.	The Secret of N.I.M.H.	Jerry Goldsmith	3.495	656	65	86	146	177	182
72.	Papillon	Jerry Goldsmith	3.489	139	10	21	34	39	35
73.	Splash	Lee Holdridge	3.482	535	53	64	123	162	133
74.	The Witches of Eastwick	John Williams	3.478	642	72	82	131	181	176
75.	One Little Indian	Jerry Goldsmith	3.474	76	6	11	17	25	17
76.	Brazil	Michael Kamen	3.470	134	10	20	32	41	31
77.	Big Wednesday	Basil Poledouris	3.453	327	42	37	65	97	86
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.	Top Gun	Harold Faltermeyer, Giorgio Moroder	3.441	136	12	20	32	40	32
82.	Chinatown	Jerry Goldsmith, Phillip Lambro	3.439	157	12	26	38	43	38
83.	Last Embrace	Miklós Rózsa	3.438	185	32	17	27	56	53
84.	Empire of the Sun	John Williams	3.437	506	37	77	131	150	111
85.	Aliens	James Horner	3.431	1,646	175	215	410	418	428
86.	The Boys from Brazil	Jerry Goldsmith	3.428	271	30	38	62	68	73
87.	Octopussy	John Barry	3.427	611	54	88	160	161	148
88.	Explorers	Jerry Goldsmith	3.426	296	30	50	63	70	83
89.	The Black Cauldron	Elmer Bernstein	3.424	316	43	43	60	77	93
90.	The Reivers	John Williams	3.423	97	7	15	25	30	20
91.	Planet of the Apes	Jerry Goldsmith	3.412	165	15	25	42	43	40
92.	The Black Hole	John Barry	3.409	225	28	31	50	53	63
93.	Platoon	Georges Delerue	3.406	138	12	20	34	44	28
94.	Rio Conchos	Jerry Goldsmith	3.400	901	81	132	235	252	201
95.	Take a Hard Ride	Jerry Goldsmith	3.395	863	70	130	245	225	193
96.	The Return of a Man Called Horse	Laurence Rosenthal	3.394	312	39	40	67	91	75
97.	The Comancheros	Elmer Bernstein	3.392	674	65	100	178	168	163
98.	The Lord of the Rings	Leonard Rosenman	3.378	920	104	145	207	227	237
99.	Halloween	John Carpenter	3.378	739	100	121	136	164	218
100.	Innerspace	Jerry Goldsmith	3.377	446	42	70	118	110	106
101.	The Black Stallion	Carmine Coppola, Shirley Walker	3.374	468	78	61	75	116	138
102.	The Beastmaster	Lee Holdridge	3.361	83	7	14	21	24	17
103.	The Journey of Natty Gann	James Horner, Elmer Bernstein	3.349	166	28	20	31	40	47
104.	Supergirl	Jerry Goldsmith	3.348	287	38	43	64	65	77
105.	Extreme Prejudice	Jerry Goldsmith	3.330	581	67	80	151	160	123
106.	The Last Starfighter	Craig Safan	3.326	319	38	50	74	84	73
107.	Pee-wee's Big Adventure	Danny Elfman	3.322	407	46	67	90	118	86
108.	The Funhouse	John Beal	3.320	169	19	27	40	47	36
109.	King Kong Lives	John Scott	3.313	323	51	42	63	89	78
110.	Die Nibelungen	Rolf Wilhelm	3.302	149	28	17	26	38	40
111.	Dracula	John Williams	3.281	235	28	40	56	60	51
112.	Alien	Jerry Goldsmith	3.273	755	93	151	158	163	190
113.	The Salamander	Jerry Goldsmith	3.270	100	10	18	27	25	20
114.	Superman II	Ken Thorne	3.270	126	11	22	36	36	21
115.	North Sea Hijack (Ffolkes)	Michael J. Lewis	3.263	175	24	27	41	45	38
116.	Robin and Marian	John Barry, Richard Shores	3.261	663	76	111	173	170	133
117.	King Solomon's Mines	Jerry Goldsmith	3.233	300	46	50	63	70	71
118.	Monte Walsh	John Barry	3.227	591	85	91	146	143	126
119.	The Swarm	Jerry Goldsmith	3.226	978	131	170	237	227	213
120.	Fantastic Voyage	Leonard Rosenman	3.224	156	24	23	41	30	38
121.	The Goonies	Dave Grusin	3.223	358	45	65	89	83	76
122.	Ice Station Zebra	Michel Legrand	3.220	337	57	48	70	88	74
123.	The Great Train Robbery	Jerry Goldsmith	3.213	221	29	41	50	56	45
124.	The River	John Williams	3.208	308	35	60	80	72	61
125.	The Bride	Maurice Jarre	3.206	262	46	45	50	51	70
126.	Legend	Jerry Goldsmith	3.205	1,075	150	201	243	241	240
127.	Poltergeist II: The Other Side	Jerry Goldsmith	3.205	435	59	79	104	100	93
128.	Marie Ward	Elmer Bernstein	3.198	464	67	79	110	111	97
129.	Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome	Maurice Jarre	3.195	267	35	52	63	60	57
130.	RoboCop	Basil Poledouris	3.191	591	67	118	158	131	117
131.	The Poseidon Adventure	John Williams	3.190	625	85	108	161	145	126
132.	SpaceCamp	John Williams	3.182	413	57	77	100	92	87
133.	Islands in the Stream	Jerry Goldsmith	3.175	252	35	46	62	58	51
134.	Breakheart Pass	Jerry Goldsmith	3.172	151	21	26	38	38	28
135.	Rocky II	Bill Conti	3.171	152	23	26	34	40	29
136.	The Conversation	David Shire	3.169	301	42	56	75	65	63
137.	The Flim-Flam Man	Jerry Goldsmith	3.159	328	46	58	85	76	63
138.	The Sword and the Sorcerer	David Whitaker	3.150	367	52	73	86	80	76
139.	Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend	Jerry Goldsmith	3.146	268	38	53	65	56	56
140.	Rocky III	Bill Conti	3.145	138	20	26	35	28	29
141.	Scarface	Giorgio Moroder	3.139	115	14	23	31	27	20
142.	Breakout	Jerry Goldsmith	3.138	334	45	65	90	67	67
143.	100 Rifles	Jerry Goldsmith	3.118	610	77	128	163	130	112
144.	Star Trek III: The Search for Spock	James Horner	3.118	951	136	193	232	203	187
145.	Stagecoach	Jerry Goldsmith	3.100	628	76	131	185	126	110
146.	Heartbeeps	John Williams	3.096	374	62	76	80	76	80
147.	Das Boot	Klaus Doldinger	3.095	169	24	34	46	32	33
148.	The Right Stuff	Bill Conti	3.085	164	32	28	34	34	36
149.	Friday the 13th	Harry Manfredini	3.083	96	12	18	28	26	12
150.	Monsignor	John Williams	3.076	238	35	47	62	53	41
151.	The Last Run	Jerry Goldsmith	3.075	80	10	16	24	18	12
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 Name of the Rose	James Horner	3.064	219	57	31	31	41	59
157.	The Terminator	Brad Fiedel	3.061	457	77	89	112	87	92
158.	Excalibur	Trevor Jones	3.054	148	30	26	30	30	32
159.	Psycho II	Jerry Goldsmith	3.051	253	45	47	63	46	52
160.	Black Sunday	John Williams	3.050	323	41	72	90	70	50
161.	Peggy Sue Got Married	John Barry	3.049	61	8	13	18	12	10
162.	Something Wicked This Way Comes	James Horner, Georges Delerue	3.049	286	47	57	67	65	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.	Beverly Hills Cop II	Harold Faltermeyer	3.042	119	15	27	34	24	19
167.	The Eiger Sanction	John Williams	3.041	147	17	31	46	35	18
168.	Brainstorm	James Horner	3.033	180	38	26	43	38	35
169.	Mad Max	Brian May	3.025	157	35	32	23	28	39
170.	Midway	John Williams	3.024	254	35	60	65	52	42
171.	WarGames	Arthur B. Rubinstein	3.022	91	14	19	24	19	15
172.	MacArthur	Jerry Goldsmith	3.018	164	27	34	40	35	28
173.	The Karate Kid	Bill Conti	3.015	273	42	58	74	52	47
174.	Bite the Bullet	Alex North	3.000	418	74	85	103	79	77
175.	Crocodile Dundee	Peter Best	3.000	103	14	23	30	21	15
176.	Logan's Run	Jerry Goldsmith	3.000	91	13	20	25	20	13
177.	Wisdom	Danny Elfman	3.000	73	10	15	23	15	10
178.	Gorky Park	James Horner	2.994	163	30	31	42	30	30
179.	Escape From New York	John Carpenter, Alan Howarth	2.992	133	19	28	38	31	17
180.	Inchon	Jerry Goldsmith	2.992	263	43	58	65	52	45
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	2.948	734	175	127	143	139	150
189.	The Ballad of Cable Hogue	Jerry Goldsmith	2.938	32	5	7	9	7	4
190.	*batteries not included	James Horner	2.935	169	27	40	45	31	26
191.	Testament	James Horner	2.932	191	41	35	43	40	32
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 Reincarnation of Peter Proud	Jerry Goldsmith	2.887	97	15	23	28	20	11
200.	The Rose Tattoo	Alex North	2.886	114	31	17	19	28	19
201.	Howard the Duck	John Barry, Sylvester Levay	2.866	67	12	15	18	14	8
202.	Project X	James Horner	2.862	304	57	70	78	56	43
203.	Wolfen	James Horner, Craig Safan	2.861	208	45	47	43	38	35
204.	The Man Who Loved Cat Dancing	John Williams, Michel Legrand	2.860	107	16	28	30	21	12
205.	Throw Momma From the Train	David Newman	2.856	111	20	26	30	20	15
206.	Commando	James Horner	2.854	540	103	125	145	82	85
207.	Forbidden Zone	Danny Elfman	2.853	95	26	17	17	15	20
208.	Damnation Alley	Jerry Goldsmith	2.841	88	14	22	26	16	10
209.	Summer School	Danny Elfman	2.835	91	15	22	27	17	10
210.	Raggedy Man	Jerry Goldsmith	2.827	220	42	48	63	40	27
211.	The Missouri Breaks	John Williams	2.813	830	170	195	196	158	111
212.	Under the Volcano	Alex North	2.806	124	30	30	21	20	23
213.	The Cassandra Crossing	Jerry Goldsmith	2.798	84	14	21	25	16	8
214.	Earthquake	John Williams	2.793	121	21	30	35	23	12
215.	Twilight's Last Gleaming	Jerry Goldsmith	2.787	188	39	46	46	30	27
216.	The Sugarland Express	John Williams	2.787	122	20	35	31	23	13
217.	Tora! Tora! Tora!	Jerry Goldsmith	2.786	56	10	15	14	11	6
218.	The Karate Kid: Part II	Bill Conti	2.772	114	18	31	34	21	10
219.	The Paper Chase	John Williams	2.769	104	17	28	31	18	10
220.	Mad Max 2 (The Road Warrior)	Brian May	2.767	120	27	28	28	20	17
221.	Conan the Destroyer	Basil Poledouris	2.728	651	132	178	158	101	82
222.	Caboblanco	Jerry Goldsmith	2.725	171	36	45	40	30	20
223.	Rio Lobo	Jerry Goldsmith	2.703	64	12	18	17	11	6
224.	The Lady in Red	James Horner	2.693	75	15	20	20	13	7
225.	The Traveling Executioner	Jerry Goldsmith	2.689	74	14	20	21	13	6
226.	Magic	Jerry Goldsmith	2.686	746	190	177	166	103	110
227.	High Velocity	Jerry Goldsmith	2.686	102	21	28	25	18	10
228.	Pete 'n' Tillie	John Williams	2.678	115	23	31	31	20	10
229.	The Man	Jerry Goldsmith	2.667	63	12	18	17	11	5
230.	Romancing the Stone	Alan Silvestri	2.658	456	145	103	62	55	91
231.	Dragonslayer	Alex North	2.616	375	151	62	27	50	85
232.	Where the River Runs Black	James Horner	2.591	164	50	35	31	28	20
233.	Link	Jerry Goldsmith	2.574	310	85	77	70	41	37
234.	Tron	Wendy Carlos	2.548	599	178	148	120	73	80
235.	Superman III	Ken Thorne	2.517	147	32	50	34	19	12
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	2.382	68	18	23	15	7	5
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	2.259	626	242	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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