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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)
Updated Review, With Additional Album
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.
7/27/26 Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid   (Miklós Rózsa)
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Buy it... for a lovingly nostalgic and unashamedly romantic tribute to Miklós Rózsa's storied career in an unlikely final score.
Avoid it... if you expect Rózsa to exit the stage with distinctively unique music, because the whole comedic point of this film was to reprise the composer's 1940's sound with joy and admiration.
7/25/26 Bound   (Don Davis)
Updated Review, With Additional Album
Buy it... if you appreciate engaging and intelligent suspense scores and Don Davis' typically strong tendency towards instrumental creativity.
Avoid it... if you prefer your noir-like scores to have a strong identity or are hoping for the music's personality to reflect more of the outright eroticism of the film.
7/23/26 The Godfather Part III   (Carmine Coppola)
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Buy it... if you are primarily in search of the vocalized portions of this soundtrack, including the Harry Connick, Jr. song or the extensive excerpts from the opera "Cavalleria Rusticana" that dominate over the less obvious score.
Avoid it... if you expect any part of Carmine Coppola's original score to compete with the far more effective and compelling thematic continuity that Nino Rota provided for the first two films.
7/21/26 Endurance   (John Powell)
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Buy it... for a respectful blend of Ethiopian vocals and instrumentation with a Western orchestra for ten to fifteen minutes of engaging highlights from John Powell's first major solo screen credit.
Avoid it... if you expect a cohesive narrative to emerge from a score that tends to drag and distract at times.
7/19/26 Sky High   (Michael Giacchino)
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Buy it... for cartoonish superhero innocence that hits the right notes for a budget production that came very early in Michael Giacchino's feature film career.
Avoid it... if the extremely dry recording quality of Giacchino's early works severely bothers you, because that dull sound really hampers this score.
7/17/26 Night Games   (John Barry)
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Buy it... for an easy and proficient but rather underwhelming erotica suspense outing from John Barry, the female vocals in this steamy thriller a wise strategy.
Avoid it... if you can't get past that nagging feeling that so much of Barry's music is narratively inert, his subdued style not quite matching the promise of the cue titles here.
7/15/26 Explorers   (Jerry Goldsmith)
Updated Review, With Additional Album
Buy it... if you desire a whimsical, optimistic twist on Jerry Goldsmith's usual action style, joined by a handful of exhilarating statements of redemptive fantasy themes in the composer's trademark synthetic and orchestral blend for the era.
Avoid it... if you require a significant amount of symphonic meat to accompany your Goldsmith constructs for this genre, for the composer keeps the environment in Explorers airy, undemanding, and occasionally downright wacky.
7/13/26 Timecop   (Mark Isham)
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Buy it... on only the expanded 2026 album for its vastly superior sound quality if you want to appreciate Mark Isham's aggressively percussive music.
Avoid it... and seek a vintage Jerry Goldsmith score instead if you wish to hear a better execution of the same general strategy, Isham not quite as comfortable in this realm so early in his career.
7/11/26 The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out of Water   (John Debney)
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Buy it... only if you have a high tolerance threshold for obnoxiously bombastic children's parody music, John Debney uncorking an admirably solid effort for this hideously ridiculous concept.
Avoid it... if you expect the central pirate element in this film to be addressed by Debney with music even remotely as impressive as that heard in his classic score for Cutthroat Island.
7/9/26 Passenger   (Christopher Young)
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Buy it... if your selection of Christopher Young's completely unlistenable horror sound design hasn't yet compelled your roommate or partner to kill you, because here is another chance to yield an insane act.
Avoid it... even if you are curious about the solitary choral half of the score, because those performances, while relaxingly pretty compared to the horror ambience, are relatively mundane.
7/7/26 The Piper   (Christopher Young)
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Buy it... to hear Christopher Young near the top of his game in the horror genre, the premise of this movie requiring a highly unique approach to its music and yielding impressive tonal heights.
Avoid it... if you find the accessibly melodic portions of Young's most flamboyant horror scores to be challenging to separate from the extremely dissonant abrasiveness of the remainder.
7/5/26 Sin City   (Robert Rodriguez/Graeme Revell/John Debney)
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Buy it... if you require a mood of tragedy and brooding contemplation that reaches to the dirty and soiled heart of Sin City's organic, pulpy style.
Avoid it... if the application of gritty, digitally distorted sax, an electric bass and guitar, and ambient sound design too substantially defies your standards of tolerance for the traditional film noir genre sound.
7/3/26 King Solomon's Mines   (Jerry Goldsmith)
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Buy it... if you own and love Jerry Goldsmith's very similarly rendered score for Supergirl, though while King Solomon's Mines shares the same lofty, enthusiastic spirit of adventure, it bubbles along without the obnoxious electronics of the previous score.
Avoid it... if you have little tolerance for scores that cannot decide whether to treat the subject matter seriously or like a parody, for King Solomon's Mines could be too cheeky in its overly positive tone for some listeners to appreciate its otherwise decent constructs.
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