Top Scores 2012: Critic’s Choice

This list will be updated every month and is based on the following soundtrack review websites: Soundtrack Geek, Filmmusicsite, Filmmuziek, Musique De Film, Musicadefilm, Scorenotes, Filmtracks, Moviemusic UK, Scoretrack, Tracksounds, Movie Wave, Main Titles, Empire Online, BSO Spirit, Colonne Sonore, Soundtracks.pl, FSM, Examiner, Filmmusic.pl, Music Muse, Film, Music & Media, Soundtrack Nerd, Ben’s Film-Music Reviews, Score Cues, Soundtrack Addict, Astur Score, Score Magacine, MuzykaFilmowa.pl, Lost In The Multiplex, Hi-Score, Golden Score, Film Music Journal, Movie Music Musings and Soundtrack Beat.

If your site isn’t here it could be that there hasn’t been a 2012 review yet, no final ratings in the reviews or I just forgot. If you think your site should be included here, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Each score must have at least 3 reviews to be counted and this list doesn’t include game scores since reviews are pretty much non-existent.

LAST UPDATED: January 21 2012

Rank	Soundtrack	Composer	SGRating
1	Metsan Tarina	Panu Aaltio	86.6
2	Rise Of The Guardians	Alexandre Desplat	90
3	Lo Imposible	Fernando Velazquez	84.4
4	Hobbit, The: An Unexpected Journey	Howard Shore	93.7
5	Green Lantern: The Animated Series	Frederik Wiedmann	98.3
6	Jack Reacher	Joe Kraemer	67.6
7	John Carter	Michael Giacchino	91.5
8	Frankenweenie	Danny Elfman	90
9	W.E.	Abel Korzeniowski	81.8
10	Journey 2: The Mysterious Island	Andrew Lockington	88.8
11	For Greater Glory: The True Story of Cristiada	James Horner	88.5
12	Lincoln	John Williams	83.7
13	Life Of Pi	Mychael Danna	72.4
14	There Be Dragons	Robert Folk	84.2
15	Hatfields & McCoys	John Debney & Tony Morales	87.5
16	A Royal Affair	Gabriel Yared & Cyrille Aufort	84
17	Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, The	Thomas Newman	90.4
18	Intruders	Roque Banos	80
19	Odd Life Of Timothy Green, The	Geoff Zanelli	78.3
20	Days Of Grace	Various Artists	58.4
21	Pusher	Orbital	65.8
22	Ted	Walter Murphy	86.1
23	Amazing Spider-Man, The	James Horner	90
24	Dawn Of The Dragonslayer	Panu Aaltio	90.6
25	Bless Me, Ultima	Mark Kilian	72.3
26	Brave	Patrick Doyle	88
27	Zero Dark Thirty	Alexandre Desplat	70
28	Wreck-It Ralph	Henry Jackman	83.1
29	Master, The	Jonny Greenwood	50.9
30	Cloud Atlas	Reinhold Heil, Johnny Klimek & Tom Tykwer	82.6
31	Anna Karenina	Dario Marianelli	68.1
32	Cosmopolis	Howard Shore	68.5
33	Beasts of the Southern Wild	Dan Romer & Benh Zeitlin	82.8
34	Transformers Prime	Brian Tyler	86.4
35	Terra Nova	Brian Tyler	79.5
36	Game Of Thrones Season 2	Ramin Djawadi	87
37	Moonrise Kingdom	Alexandre Desplat	55
39	Once Upon A Time	Mark Isham	88
39	Hemingway & Gellhorn	Javier Navarrete	68.8
40	Looper	Nathan Johnson	78.9
41	Twilight Saga, The: Breaking Dawn Part 2	Carter Burwell	80
42	Tall Man, The	Todd Bryanton, Joel Douek & Christopher Young	89.5
43	Hitchcock	Danny Elfman	81.4
44	Pact, The	Ronen Landa	88.5
45	Woman Thou Art Loosed...	Mark Kilian	69.2
46	Argo	Alexandre Desplat	74.2
47	Skyfall	Thomas Newman	78
48	Cockneys Vs Zombies	Jody Jenkins	78.5
49	Salmon Fishing In The Yemen	Dario Marianelli	69.3
50	Dr. Seuss The Lorax	John Powell	81.5
52	De Rouille et d'Os	Alexandre Desplat	58.8
52	Expendables 2, The	Brian Tyler	84.2
53	Won't Back Down	Marcelo Zarvos	71.4
54	La Nouvelle Guerre des Boutons	Philippe Rombi	76.1
55	Words, The	Marcelo Zarvos	70.5
56	Bel Ami	Rachel Portman & Lakshman Joseph De Saram	65.2
57	Black Gold	James Horner	80
58	Right To Love, The: An American Family	Edwin Wendler	80
59	Silent Hill: Revelation 3D	Jeff Danna & Akira Yamaoko	70
60	Paranorman	Jon Brion	71.2
61	Red Lights	Victor Reyes	71.4
62	Dark Shadows	Danny Elfman	86.6
63	Trouble With The Curve	Marco Beltrami	82.1
64	Arbitrage	Cliff Martinez	78
65	Brother's Keeper	Bill Brown	84
66	Sweeney, The	Lorne Balfe	78.7
67	Hysteria	Galt Waltzing & Christian Henson	68.4
68	People Like Us	A.R. Rahman	77.5
69	Snow White & The Huntsman	James Newton Howard	91.7
70	Last Breath	Vincent Gillioz	73
71	Dark Knight Rises, The	Hans Zimmer	90.6
72	Natural Selection	iZLER & Curt Schneider	63.3
73	Touchback	William Ross	70.3
74	Sherlock Series Two	David Arnold & Michael Price	65.2
75	On The Road	Gustavo Santaolalla	60
76	Homefront	Miguel d'Oliveira	70
77	Phase 7	Guillermo Guareschi	60
78	Bait 3D	Joe Ng & Alex Oh	79
79	Tad: The Lost Explorer	Zacarias M. De La Riva	79
80	Day I Saw Your Heart, The	Nathan Johnson	61.4
81	Columbus Circle	Brian Tyler	65.5
82	41	Mark Kilian	61.4
83	Big Miracle	Cliff Eidelman	75
84	Casa De Mi Padre	Andrew Feltenstein & John Nau	62.2
85	Vow, The	Rachel Portman & Michael Brook	83.7
86	Mirror Mirror	Alan Menken	78.6
87	Fringe Season 3	Chris Tilton	73.5
88	Prometheus	Marc Streitenfeld	81.6
89	Woman In Black, The	Marco Beltrami	79
90	Ice Age: Continental Drift	John Powell	82.8
91	Wrath Of The Titans	Javier Navarrete	85
92	Femme Fatales	Joe Kraemer	66.9
93	Crazy Eyes	Bobby Johnston	61.8
94	Cabin In The Woods, The	David Julyan	70.4
95	Innkeepers, The	Jeff Grace	45.7
96	Sherlock Series One	David Arnold & Michael Price	65.2
97	Hostel Part III	Frederik Wiedmann	84.2
98	Hunger Games, The	James Newton Howard	72.9
99	Act Of Valor	Nathan Hurst	70
100	Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted	Hans Zimmer	84
101	Rubicon	Peter Nashel	58
102	Men In Black 3	Danny Elfman	79
103	Avengers, The	Alan Silvestri	71.1
104	Queen Of Versailles, The	Jeff Beal	70
105	Sessions, The	Marco Beltrami	63
106	Sinister	Christopher Young	58.4
107	Bay, The	Marcelo Zarvos	66.6
108	Brake	Brian Tyler	70.5
109	Pirates!, The: Band of Misfits	Theodore Shapiro	73
110	Being Flynn	Badly Drawn Boy	67.5
111	Safe House	Ramin Djawadi	63.3
112	Silver Linings Playbook	Danny Elfman	78
113	Get The Gringo	Antonio Pinto	73.3
114	Haywire	David Holmes	46.6
115	Seven Psychopaths	Carter Burwell	58
116	Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter	Henry Jackman	82.7
117	Piranha 3DD	Elia Cmiral	76.6
118	One For The Money	Deborah Lurie	52.3
119	Grey, The	Marc Streitenfeld	47.5
120	Gone	David Buckley	66.6
121	Lola Versus	Fall On Your Sword	75.3
122	Odyssey, The	Antonio Pinto & Dudu Aram	71.6
123	Dredd	Paul Leonard-Morgan	69
124	Underworld: Awakening	Paul Haslinger	65.4
125	Total Recall	Harry Gregson-Williams	85
126	Apparition, The	Tomandandy	70.5
127	Red Dawn	Ramin Djawadi	84
128	Coriolanus	Ilan Eshkeri	41
129	Bereavement	Stevan Mena	86.6
130	Butter	Matteo Messina	65
131	Man On A Ledge	Henry Jackman	68.5
132	Mother's Day	Bobby Johnston	53.3
133	Red Tails	Terence Blanchard	62.9
134	Bourne Legacy, The	James Newton Howard	73.6
135	Breaking Bad	Dave Porter	45
136	For A Good Time Call...	John Swihart	48.2
137	Battleship	Steve Jablonsky	78.3
138	Ghost Rider: Spirit Of Vengeance	David Sardy	53.1
N/A	Rites Of Spring	Holly Amber Church	70.9
N/A	Resident Evil: Retribution	Tomandandy	85.5
N/A	Yoko	Mark Anthony Yaeger	81.8
N/A	Raid, The: Redemption	Mike Shinoda & Joseph Trapanese	66.6
N/A	Philly Kid	Ian Honeyman	81
N/A	Raven, The	Lucas Vidal	68.1
N/A	Reality	Alexandre Desplat	62
N/A	Rec 3: Genesis	Mikel Salas	78.5
N/A	Red Hook Summer	Bruce Hornsby	68.3
N/A	Taken 2	Nathaniel Mechaly	72.2
N/A	Thundercats	Kevin Kliesch	75.2
N/A	Thale	Raymond Enoksen & Geirmund Simonsen	86.6
N/A	Texas Killing Fields	Dickon Hinchliffe	68
N/A	Tales Of The Waria	Gil Talmi	84.6
N/A	Timescapes	John Stanford	85.4
N/A	Trouble With Bliss, The	Daniel Alcheh	62.2
N/A	Person Of Interest	Ramin Djawadi	69.5
N/A	We Are Legion	John Dragonetti	68
N/A	Watermen, The	Bryce Jacobs	72.5
N/A	Truth Or Dare	Richard Pryn	66
N/A	Sur La Piste Du Marsupilami	Bruno Coulais	69
N/A	Strippers Vs. Werewolves	Neil Chaney	60
N/A	Sexykiller	Fernando Velazquez	71
N/A	Seeking Justice	J. Peter Robinson	62.2
N/A	Seeking A Friend For The End Of The World	Rob Simonsen & Jonathan Sadoff	69.2
N/A	Safe	Mark Mothersbaugh	58.1
N/A	Shanghai Calling	Klaus Badelt & Christopher Carmichael	64.6
N/A	Shock Head Soul	Roger Goula	61.3
N/A	Spiders 3D	Joseph Conlan	45
N/A	Spartacus: Vengeance	Joseph LoDuca	76.1
N/A	Spartacus: Gods Of The Arena	Joseph LoDuca	71.5
N/A	Smashed	Andy Cabic & Eric D. Johnson	63.3
N/A	Ruby Sparks	Nick Urata	74.6
N/A	Berserk: The Golden Age Arc - The Egg of the King	Shiro Sagisu	78
N/A	Chernobyl Diaries	Diego Stocco	46
N/A	Cleanskin	Simon Lambros	57.6
N/A	Ce Que Le Jour Doit a La Nuit	Armand Amar	74.1
N/A	Bunker	Robert Feigenblatt	48.4
N/A	Boss	Brian Reitzell	65.4
N/A	Cold Light Of Day, The	Lucas Vidal	70.5
N/A	Compliance	Heather McIntosh	40
N/A	Dead Souls	Matthew Llewelyn & Jonathan Bartz	71.5
N/A	Dans La Maison	Philippe Rombi	82.1
N/A	Contraband	Clinton Shorter	46.1
N/A	Conquest 1453	Benjamin Wallfisch	82.5
N/A	Big Miracle	Cliff Eidelman	75
N/A	Berserk: The Golden Age Arc 2 - The Battle For Doldrey	Shiro Sagisu	75.4
N/A	Alex Cross	John Debney	70
N/A	96 Minutes	Kurt Farquhar	70.9
N/A	90 Minutes	Henrik Skram	70.6
N/A	30 Couleur	Klaus Badelt	80
N/A	Anita Garibaldi	Amedeo Minghi	78.7
N/A	Any Day Now	Joey Newman	80
N/A	28 Hotel Rooms	Fall On Your Sword	75
N/A	Bernie	Graham Reynolds	62
N/A	A Very Eureka Christmas	Bear McCreary	74
N/A	A Thousand Words	John Debney	68.8
N/A	Death And The Civil War	Brian Keane	78.4
N/A	Detachment	The Newton Brothers	80
N/A	Killer Joe	Tyler Bates	61.4
N/A	Invader	Lucas Vidal	67
N/A	Indie Game: The Movie	Jim Guthrie	60
N/A	Imaginaerum	Nightwish	85
N/A	Killing, The	Frans Bak	74.2
N/A	Last Call At The Oasis	Jeff Beal	67.2
N/A	Nobody Walks	Fall On Your Sword	77.1
N/A	Mientras Duermes	Lucas Vidal	58.2
N/A	Merlin Series Three	Rob Lane & Rohan Stevenson	77.7
N/A	Merlin Series Four	Rob Lane & Rohan Stevenson	86.3
N/A	Hot Potato, The	Guy Farley	64.4
N/A	High School	The Newton Brothers	67.1
N/A	End Of Watch	David Sardy	66.6
N/A	Divide, The	Jean Pierre Taieb	66.9
N/A	Dirk Gently	Daniel Pemberton	68.3
N/A	Dexter Season 6	Daniel Licht	84.4
N/A	Escape	Edwin Wendler	73.3
N/A	Flight	Alan Silvestri	57.1
N/A	Hell On Wheels Season One	Kevin Kiner	68.8
N/A	Good Doctor, The	Brian Byrne	80
N/A	Girl In Progress	Christopher Lennertz	68
N/A	Fringe Season 4	Chris Tilton	80.6
N/A	On The Ice	iZLER	73.3

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