What Is The Last Score You Listened To? (2025 Scores)

[Thor 9,337]

Some major titles, some under-the-radar gems, some short films and two archival releases in the latest mini review batch: 

 

https://celluloidtunes.no/tron-ares-highest-2-lowest-and-more/

 

HIGHEST 2 LOWEST (Drossin)
LE ROUTARD (Bource)
HOLLYWOOD GRIT (Gomez)
IRELAND (Byrne)
TRON: ARES (NiN)
LE SECRET DE MARTHA (Paillot)
FOOLISH HEART (Preisner)
QUESTA SPECIE D'AMORE (Morricone)

[Jay 45,320]

Thor's back?

 

And ignored the thread dedicated to him?

[Thor 9,337]

20 minutes ago, Jay said:

Thor's back?

 

And ignored the thread dedicated to him?

 

Sorry, didn't see the other thread. Thanks for the dedicated thread in the JWFAN sub category. As I say in the FSM post quoted there, I will continue to post links to things I've written, but will be absent for pretty much everything else.

[Under-Terrestrial 102]

https://music.apple.com/nz/album/one-battle-after-another-original-motion-picture-soundtrack/1839519399

 

 

Another strange musical landscape conjured between PTA and Greenwood! Battle After Battle in particular has the M.O. of Greenwood string writing. If you like percussion and winds going crazy, Ocean Waves is coooooooool. I didn't identify the piano track from the trailer in these samples, but maybe it's buried in there somewhere...

[tomsmoviemadness 4,692]

There's been a couple of scores this year that weren't on my radar at all when the year started, some not even till a week or so ago, but which I enjoyed immensely and were such great surprises.

 

Presence - Zack Ryan

Short, but oh so beautiful!

 

Requiem - Yugo Kanno

It has a lot of different styles and it's maybe a bit chaotic at times because of that, but it's done with a lot of control that I think it actually works really well.

 

Queen Of The Ring - Aaron Gilhuis

Not sure how to describe it, but it's a sort of rock/country mix. Not high art or anything, but I really enjoyed it.

 

Nonnas - Marcelo Zarvos

It's light and very typical when it comes to comedy/drama scores, but I enjoyed the Italian flavor to it.

 

Long Way Home - Charlie Jefferson

Another one of those scores that's on a compositional level rrally intricate or anything, but I just like the vibe of the whole thing. Could just put this on while going for a drive or something. So nice.

 

Red Sonja - Sonya Belousova & Giona Ostinelli

It's been mentioned in this thread before, but only really listened to it for the first time yesterday. It's a mix between their scores for The Witcher & One Piece and I quite enjoyed it. The main theme is great and there were moments that somehow reminded me of Horner (especially during the trumpet performances in Damnati Training)

 

Highest 2 Lowest - Howard Drossin

This is basically a Terence Blanchard score that he didn't write. Really liked it.

 

Americana - David Fleming

Best score of Fleming's career. Excellent runtime and I just really love the soundscape he has created. Score like these don't come along often, but I always love it when they do.

 

The Threesome - Keegan DeWitt

Some moments I  don't really like, but the moments it goes more in the direction of a romantic drama it really excells!

[filmmusic 3,066]

On 25/09/2025 at 3:39 PM, Under-Terrestrial said:

https://music.apple.com/nz/album/one-battle-after-another-original-motion-picture-soundtrack/1839519399

 

 

Another strange musical landscape conjured between PTA and Greenwood! Battle After Battle in particular has the M.O. of Greenwood string writing. If you like percussion and winds going crazy, Ocean Waves is coooooooool. I didn't identify the piano track from the trailer in these samples, but maybe it's buried in there somewhere...

I listened to it yesterday.

I have a love-hate relationship with Greenwood.

I admire the craftmanship, but I'm not sure I can listen to his scores again (or at least revisit them often)

[Tom Guernsey 3,653]

F1. File under “scores that are exactly as you expect but not in a bad way”. The sort of film Hans was born to score. Not as good as Rush but still the kind of power anthem rock score you sometimes need in your day. In amongst an almost continuous stream of Bernard Herrmann in my case.

 

Highly amused by this track title though… there literally isn’t any other goal in F1 so is quite impressively redundant. Although disappointing that there aren’t tracks such as “mind out for that pedestrian” or “shit I’m in the wrong fucking lane”.

 

 

Of course this track is probably only rage bate to the anti-Hansers.
 

[filmmusic 3,066]

 

Quite good but not that great if we compare it with, let's say, 80s-90s scores.

As someone said at facebook (I will use my own words), we have got used to such low quality of scores nowadays that when something else arrives that evokes past glories, we hail it as a masterpiece!

[tomsmoviemadness 4,692]

The review from Empire Magazine praises NIN's score for Tron Ares.

 

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The real MVPs, however, are Nine Inch Nails, whose staggeringly brilliant soundtrack dominates the entire proceedings. Not since, well, the last Tron film, with Daft Punk’s masterfully sweeping orchestral-bleeps mashup, has a film score elevated its material so significantly, so impressively. Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross are old hands at this now, but still: by turns twinkly intriguing and bone-rattlingly industrial, tech-noir by way of a grimy Berlin nightclub, it’s an album which deserves far more regular rotation than the film itself.

 

I mostly agree with reviews from Empire and been reading it monthly for years. But I do NOT agree with their statement here. Especially the part about it being the first score in 15 years that's elevated the film it accompanies.

[CinderTech 1,706]

 

[The Score Cleaner 9,632]

On 07/10/2025 at 3:49 PM, tomsmoviemadness said:

The review from Empire Magazine praises NIN's score for Tron Ares.

 

 

I mostly agree with reviews from Empire and been reading it monthly for years. But I do NOT agree with their statement here. Especially the part about it being the first score in 15 years that's elevated the film it accompanies.

So significantly*

[Edmilson 11,752]

On 07/10/2025 at 4:49 PM, tomsmoviemadness said:

I mostly agree with reviews from Empire and been reading it monthly for years. But I do NOT agree with their statement here. Especially the part about it being the first score in 15 years that's elevated the film it accompanies.

Indeed. It's like they're saying "the only ones capable of writing music that elevates the movie are pop musicians", thus ignoring the contributions made by the many film composers who are much less famous than NIN or Daft Punk.

[Knight of Ren 1,455]

Yeah, I don't get what's with film critics and their love for musicians turned film composers but I think it's disrespectful towards many film composers who do great scores each year. No shade against musicians turned composers, as I think some of them are great, like Jonny Greenwood, but the score for TRON: Ares is definitely not the only score in the last 15 years which has elevated the film it accompanies. It's a fine score, I like the songs, but it's nowhere in the best of the year. And Daft Punk's score for Legacy was much better imo.

[Tom Guernsey 3,653]

2 hours ago, Knight of Ren said:

Yeah, I don't get what's with film critics and their love for musicians turned film composers but I think it's disrespectful towards many film composers who do great scores each year. No shade against musicians turned composers, as I think some of them are great, like Jonny Greenwood, but the score for TRON: Ares is definitely not the only score in the last 15 years which has elevated the film it accompanies. It's a fine score, I like the songs, but it's nowhere in the best of the year. And Daft Punk's score for Legacy was much better imo.

It's basically a form of confirmation bias. If the score is by musicians who are famous outside of film, there's naturally a greater instinct to pay attention to the music in the film (not necessarily the case if they are just contributing a song or two, but sometimes that happens) and potentially overstate how good/effective it is. I'm not saying the music is or isn't going to be better than if it were by a "regular" film composer, but a reviewer is just more likely to listening out for it, especially if it's by someone whose music they like anyway. The bias probably increases with the fame of the composer and the rarity of their contributions to film (broadly speaking).

 

I may give this a try. I really enjoy the Daft Punk score but feel like NIN is less likely to excite me.

[enderdrag64 1,785]

I listened to a couple tracks of the NIN Tron and I really did not like it at all, pretty disappointing as a huge fan of Legacy. I'm really shocked how much praise I'm seeing for it online.

The synth they used is very scratchy and off-putting, I find it extremely grating on the ears. People really like this stuff?

 

[Under-Terrestrial 102]

The music for Sylvain Chomet's animated films tend to be aces (including the one for L'Illusioniste that Chomet wrote himself!) Stefano Bollani is unfamiliar to me, but he seems to have steadily built a reputation as a versatile composer/musician in Europe over the past 25 years. I suspect this movie about real-life filmmaker/writer Marcel Pagnol will come out stateside early next year. Lovely work across this short OST, including this track:

 

https://youtu.be/ZKje1YMgJ-I?si=rWoJ6zmriYcwBJnJ

 

 

**********

 

I was the 1 person to see and enjoy this movie (jk, there were actually 2 or 3 others in my auditorium!) and the score by Krlic snuck its way into my soul a little bit. Very rooted in indie folk rock.

 

https://youtu.be/IWcKZ5MpDuM?si=TvzudebzNEvth9iE

 

[Under-Terrestrial 102]

AFTER THE HUNT --- Trent Reznor And Atticus Ross

 

The three score tracks on the OST all riff on this spare piano idea. There's not much score in the movie, as it shares space with a lot of modern classical selections:

 

https://youtu.be/-U7ZZmSNwcM?si=nqrIiIf2F5V6DIOW

 

 

A HOUSE OF DYNAMITE --- Volker Bertelmann

 

Like CONCLAVE if that score's descending melodic contours ascended:

 

https://youtu.be/1hfW6X87ne0?si=VcHFK7HU_Ydo4IL5

 

 

BUGONIA --- Jerskin Fendrix

 

Flutes! Orchestra!! Momentum!!!

 

https://youtu.be/8V3ziDCYxVs?si=qkE-NqUKPvr6bGPC

 

 

TRAIN DREAMS --- Bryce Dessner

 

I've enjoyed the Bryce Dessner I've sampled, though this will be the first film he's scored that I'll pull the trigger on. Reminds me of some of the more mellow passages from Hildur Guonadottir's WOMEN TALKING score:

 

https://youtu.be/NSpHq2NdoXk?si=YovtBwHv_MB26JVA

 

 

JAY KELLY --- Nicholas Britell

 

As if Britell shook hands with Yann Tiersen. Me likey  :

 

https://youtu.be/o9k-aDveRdQ?si=oMiSW-z5BFtCIFw1

 

 

HAMNET --- Max Richter

 

Every time I watch a movie with a Richter score, I'm always disappointed that he [mostly] coasts on vibe instead of serious symphonic thrust like his solo work does, but this track is emotional (which is in-line with the buzz this movie has enjoyed so far):

 

https://youtu.be/GfBof20zuis?si=mQXH1Z2IO_Rduc3F

[SF1_freeze 138]

On 30/09/2025 at 3:04 PM, Tom Guernsey said:

F1. File under “scores that are exactly as you expect but not in a bad way”. The sort of film Hans was born to score. Not as good as Rush but still the kind of power anthem rock score you sometimes need in your day. 

 

 

100% agreed, the power anthem theme worked very well in the film and fit it like a glove. One of the rare recent Zimmer stuff i liked (in the film).

 

The Tron Ares score on the other hand was utterly horrible. What a shame and embarrassment.

And this after the very good power anthem like Tron 2 score.

[filmmusic 3,066]

 

I haven't seen a single Lanthimos film, though Greek.

I'm not a fan of weird cinema.

But, this was actually pretty good.

Although, from what I've read, the composer didn't have a clue about the film, apart from three words!

That's pretty unconventional, and I think such scores shouldn't even be allowed to be nominated for an Oscar, since the score wasn't composed for the film itself, but on an abstract idea about the film.

it's like using pre-existing music for a film. Like nominating Mozart for the music of Amadeus.

https://www.goldderby.com/film/2025/jerskin-fendrix-bugonia-composing-without-script/

[Jay 45,320]

3 hours ago, filmmusic said:

I haven't seen a single Lanthimos film, though Greek.

 

Watch The Favourite first!

 

3 hours ago, filmmusic said:

Although, from what I've read, the composer didn't have a clue about the film, apart from three words!

That's pretty unconventional, and I think such scores shouldn't even be allowed to be nominated for an Oscar, since the score wasn't composed for the film itself, but on an abstract idea about the film.

 

Rubbish.  It's original music written specifically for the film, and used in the film.

 

3 hours ago, filmmusic said:

it's like using pre-existing music for a film. Like nominating Mozart for the music of Amadeus.

 

No, it's literally the exact opposite of that... it's completely brand new music made for the film.  It couldn't be more of an original score.

 

3 hours ago, filmmusic said:

https://www.goldderby.com/film/2025/jerskin-fendrix-bugonia-composing-without-script/

 

Thanks for this, interesting read!

[The Score Cleaner 9,632]

IIRC Mica Levi does pretty much the same thing (composing the score without watching the film etc. Apparently she actually hates it! Scoring to picture I mean)

[Edmilson 11,752]

Alexandre Desplat - L'homme qui rétrécit

 

Boring as heck. I was expecting something more akin to Valerian, but this isn't as interesting.

[CinderTech 1,706]

 

Well. Here goes.

[Knight of Ren 1,455]

Some scores I really liked from the last couple of months:

I'm not the biggest Bertelmann fan, but Conclave and this have shown a side of him I really like. The main theme is quite memorable and I love his string and brass writing. If the movie had received better reviews I could see this score earning an Oscar nom but I don't think that will happen.

 

A different score to what Djawadi is used to. It's smaller in scale, with a heavy focus on strings and folksy guitars to represent the period, and has a couple of great themes thrown in there too. It's nothing too groundbreaking but shows a more playful side from Djawadi than what his fantasy/sci-fi efforts allow him to show.

 

A really nice little surprise. Fleming is a bit of a hit or miss for me, as I really liked his score for Damsel, but I disliked his Superman score. But this is completely different from those two, being a much more intimate and smaller score, focusing on folksy instruments, piano and a great use of vocals, with a strong main theme too.

 

Also really different to Tyler's blockbuster bombastic scores. This one's also highly dramatic and intense, but in a different style, with a strong focus on strings, and a couple of solid themes. His album presentation with the 5 part suite really helps you appreciate the score a lot more than if it was just the actual underscore of the film.

 

After a really great score by Ilan Eskheri for Ghost of Tsushima, I was afraid this score wouldn't be on the same level since its a different composer, but Toma Otowa deliverd something quite different but just as great as that one. It has a bunch of excellent themes and the real highlight is the awesome mix between traditional orchestra and japanese instruments all written in the style of an spaghetti western. Highly recommended for the people that say scores nowadays aren't as thematic and orchestral as they used to be!

[tomsmoviemadness 4,692]

Americana still is one of my biggest surpises of the year. Incredible score with a perfect album imo.

 

I also really enjoyed Death By Lightning, Nuremberg and Ghost of Yotei.

 

Ballad of a Small Player has some amazing moments in the big grand pieces. I still feel there's still quite some music that doesn't really do anything, so I wittled the album down a bit. But I am impressed by the moments Bertelman goes all out. They're really fun!

 

At this moment, with less than 2 months to go, my favorite scores of the year are Fantastic Four, Americana, How To Train Your Dragon, Downton Abbey: The Grand Finale and F1.

 

Others are Jurassic World Rebirth, Play Dirty, Sinners and The Bad Guys 2.

 

I suspect Now You See Me: Now You Don't, Wicked: For Good, Wake Up Dead Man, Avatar: Fire And Ash will get into my top 10 at the end. And very curious about Zootopia 2.

[Knight of Ren 1,455]

I share some of my favorites with yours, in no particular order:

-Sinners

-F1

-Red Sonja

-Clair Obscur

-Silksong

-Fantastic Four

-Cobra Kai

 

And from what remains of the year I'm really looking forward to:

-Now You See Me 3

-Wicked: For Good

-Zootopia 2

-Hamnet

-Scarlet

-Avatar: Fire and Ash

 

plus the second season of both Percy Jackson and Fallout

[Jay 45,320]

Sarah Schachner & Benjamin Wallfisch - Predator: Badlands

 

I don't know why but when I sat down to work on Friday and it was New Release Friday I was like "the Badlands OST came out today, I'll try that" and I played it.

 

It's bad.  Really bad.  The worst kind of modern scoring, as far as possible from the melodic orchestral classics of the genre and early parts of the series.  Huge bummer.

[Thor 9,337]

A new batch of mini reviews, for anyone interested:

 

https://celluloidtunes.no/bugonia-jacobs-ladder-swiped-and-more/

 

BUGONIA (Jerskin Fendrix)

SWIPED (Chanda Dancy)

MOI QUI T'AMAIS (Philippe Sarde)

ANNE SHIRLEY (Mishiru Oshima)

KAAMELOTT - DEUXIEME VOLET [PARTIE 1] (Alexandre Astier)

WHERE THE WIND BLOWS (Jason & Nolan Livesay)

JACOB'S LADDER (Maurice Jarre)

[Jurassic Shark 16,144]

On 30/09/2025 at 3:04 PM, Tom Guernsey said:

 

Sums up Zimmer's career quite well.

[Fargo 303]

On 10/11/2025 at 9:25 AM, tomsmoviemadness said:

I also really enjoyed Death By Lightning, Nuremberg and Ghost of Yotei.

 

Re: Nuremberg by Brian Tyler - there is a theme (maybe the main theme) that reminds me of a different score, and it's driving me crazy that I can't pinpoint it. Can be heard at 1:41 of the track Modesty vs Vanity, as well as other places. Does anybody know what it sounds similar to?

 

 

[Stéphane Humez 1,036]

1 minute ago, Fargo said:

 

Re: Nuremberg by Brian Tyler - there is a theme (maybe the main theme) that reminds me of a different score, and it's driving me crazy that I can't pinpoint it. Can be heard at 1:41 of the track Modesty vs Vanity, as well as other places. Does anybody know what it sounds similar to?

 

 

 

Kinda reminds me of V For Vendetta (which Lorne also briefly used in Inception and MI Fallout lol).

[Fargo 303]

21 minutes ago, Stéphane Humez said:

 

Kinda reminds me of V For Vendetta (which Lorne also briefly used in Inception and MI Fallout lol).

 

V for Vendetta was on my mind too. I'll have to go back and listen again, it was driving me nuts haha. Thanks!

 

Edit

Seems like it's really just a chord progression that sounds similar. Found it at 2:50 in this track from V for Vendetta
 

 

[sdimidenko 4]

2 hours ago, Stéphane Humez said:

 

Kinda reminds me of V For Vendetta (which Lorne also briefly used in Inception and MI Fallout lol).

Could it be from Lorne Balfe's Dungeons and Dragons?

[tomsmoviemadness 4,692]

3 hours ago, Fargo said:

 

Re: Nuremberg by Brian Tyler - there is a theme (maybe the main theme) that reminds me of a different score, and it's driving me crazy that I can't pinpoint it. Can be heard at 1:41 of the track Modesty vs Vanity, as well as other places. Does anybody know what it sounds similar to?

 

 

 

Isn't is a bit like Tyler's score for Thor?

 

1:50 of Legacy for example.

 

 

 

 

[The Score Cleaner 9,632]

6 hours ago, Fargo said:

 

Re: Nuremberg by Brian Tyler - there is a theme (maybe the main theme) that reminds me of a different score, and it's driving me crazy that I can't pinpoint it. Can be heard at 1:41 of the track Modesty vs Vanity, as well as other places. Does anybody know what it sounds similar to?

 

 

Kinda reminds me of James Horner's Spider-Man

[Fargo 303]

1 minute ago, The Score Cleaner said:

Kinda reminds me of James Horner's Spider-Man

Oh dang, that might be it for me too. I know it’s from a soundtrack that I’ve listened through multiple times, which I definitely have for Amazing SM 1. I’ll need to give another listen through. 

[Edmilson 11,752]

6 hours ago, Stéphane Humez said:

which Lorne also briefly used in Inception

Didn't you mean Zimmer? I think I know which part of Inception you're talking about, but I thought it was a Zimmer thing. 

[The Score Cleaner 9,632]

12 minutes ago, Fargo said:

Oh dang, that might be it for me too. I know it’s from a soundtrack that I’ve listened through multiple times, which I definitely have for Amazing SM 1. I’ll need to give another listen through. 

1:30, 2:22

 

[Fargo 303]

3 minutes ago, The Score Cleaner said:

 

There it is, my hero. Around 1:18 is what was hiding in the back of my brain. 
 

Thanks to everyone else for the responses too - this has always been a crazy helpful forum. Love you all. 

[The Score Cleaner 9,632]

25 minutes ago, Fargo said:

There it is, my hero. Around 1:18 is what was hiding in the back of my brain. 
 

Thanks to everyone else for the responses too - this has always been a crazy helpful forum. Love you all. 

Around 4:00 was one of the ones that I was thinking of: 

 

 

(There are probably others that are only on the sessions)

[Edmilson 11,752]

Alexandre Desplat - Frankenstein

 

Eh, didn't like it. It's typical run-of-the-mill Desplat music for prestige drama movie, and when he tries to go bigger and more gothic, the results are underwhelming, without the intensity of Godzilla or even his recent Jurassic score. The choir sounds as synth as the one James Horner used on Titanic.

 

So far, out of the three Del Toro/Desplat collaborations, I only liked The Shape of Water. Pinnocchio and Frankenstein didn't do anything for me.

[Jay 45,320]

John Powell - How To Train Your Dragon 2025

 

One of the only scores of the year I've listened to more than once.  And one I liked more with every listen.  Need to see the movie now and then open up and listen to my physical CD edition!

 

Alexandre Desplat - Jurassic World Rebirth

 

A score I liked right away, but didn't love, but then grew to like it more and more and more with every listen, and then grew to REALLY like it after finally seeing the movie.  The movie was dumb, but the score is quite wonderful

 

Michael Giacchino - Fantastic Four: First Steps

 

A score I liked a lot when I first heard it, then didn't like the movie, then just kind of haven't returned to the album at all since.  Not sure why this faded for me so fast, but here we are.

 

Alan Silvestri - Play Dirty

 

A surprise fun gem of the year.  Would like to see the movie and know why the album ends so abruptly; I wish Silvestri had changed the chrono order, or recorded something just for the album to make it end stronger or something, because as-is the album ending like this ruins the nice vibes listening to the score gives up until that point

 

Brian Tyler - Now You See Me 3

 

I LOVE the first score to this franchise and the second score was good as well, but after a few listens I think I like this entry more than the scond one.  The album flows the best of the three, perhaps, and has a lot of fun moments.  Fun is the best word to use when talking about this, it just feels like Tyler was having a ball here.

 

 

 

I am now realizing there's only 5 weeks left of the year and there's tons of score I haven't listened to yet at all!  Dracula, Frankenstein, Tron, Sinners, Bad Guys 2, Zootopia 2, Avatar 3, Wake Up Dead Man, Elio, Americana, Wicked 2, probably a bunch of other scores I might like that aren't even really on my radar yet... oi

[tomsmoviemadness 4,692]

2 hours ago, Jay said:

Alan Silvestri - Play Dirty

 

A surprise fun gem of the year.  Would like to see the movie and know why the album ends so abruptly; I wish Silvestri had changed the chrono order, or recorded something just for the album to make it end stronger or something, because as-is the album ending like this ruins the nice vibes listening to the score gives up until that point

 

I adtually saw the film today, it's fun for the time being. Has some terrible vfx though, bit convoluted at points and it's still feels very much like a streaming movie. Thought Lakeith Stanfield was the standout.

 

Silvestri's music really does a lot heavy lifting. It's really fantastic and there's some more of those jazzy sequences in the film not on the album which is a shame. If I remember correctly "Aftermath" is the final longer cue in the film. There is a small snippet of the jazzy stuff I believe but then the end credits is first a song and then a reprise of the main title.

 

If you want a chronological order of the album, "Main Title" needs to go after "What Have You Done?". The rest is in the right order I believe.

[Jay 45,320]

Michael Giacchino - Zooptopia 2

 

WOW, I LOVE this album!  It is SO MUCH FUN, the most fun Giacchino has had in a long time.  The album settles down only near the end, but its still good, the final 10 minute wrap-up suite is pretty cool.

 

I almost can't believe both this and Now You See Me 3 came out on the same day.  What a treat!  2 super fun albums, but two composers having tons of fun with sequel scores.  Great stuff.

[Knight of Ren 1,455]

This was a pleasant surprise! Such a lovely work from Britell, who delivers an emotional and intimate score, highly thematic and melodic that reminds me of some of my favorite works from him (Battle of the Sexes, Vice or Succession). I'm not a huge fan of his more low-key and minimalist efforts for Oscar-bait films so I really liked how straightforward this one was, and I could see him earning a nomination if the movie is received well enough.

 

Another unexpectedly pleasant surprise! I listened to all three seasons of this score by Joy Ngiaw (who I wasn't familiar with), and since the albums are quite short it only amounts to a couple of hours. And it's a fantastic thematic score, fully orchestral, with great use of electronics and vocals here and there and a great, memorable main theme. It's one of those fantasy scores that you can mostly find only on children films/shows nowadays, which is a shame because it's fantastic!

[tomsmoviemadness 4,692]

Agree on both! Thought both were outstanding.

[Jay 45,320]

Simon Franglen - Avatar 3 Fire and Ash

 

I liked this album a lot, its nice to have a big sweeping orchestral score full of themes to end the year.  When listening I got nostalgic for Horner's voice every time his main theme from the original film came in.  The action material here is a step-up from Avatar 2 and overall I just like this more than Avatar 2's album.

 

 

The year is ending really strong for scores, between this, Zootopia 2, and Now You See Me 3 all coming out within weeks of another.  What a treat!

[crocodile 9,530]

Frankenstein

Jurassic World Rebirth

 

Between those two monstrous (in subject and length) score albums, 2025 was a very strong year for Desplat. Neither of them is necessarily a big crowd pleaser in a conventional blockbuster sense but there's so much lovely detail and thought behind each note. It's the kind of writing you don't get to experience very often and, even less so, the clear voice of a composer that isn't like everyone else. Both scores are quite exquisite, both in outside of their films. Still hoping for latter to receive a 2CD release.

 

Karol

[CinderTech 1,706]

[filmmusic 3,066]

I decided to listen to the Golden Globe nominations, though I don't generally like recent scores.

 

 

Didn't do anything to me.. At all..