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TF scores the latest soundtracks…

annette

After Edgar Wright’s docu-celebration, the brothers Sparks maintain momentum with their popoperatic Leos Carax musical. Though the mood gets dour, ‘We Love Each Other So Much’ and vaudevillian newwaver ‘So May We Start’ are nagging delights. And while Marion Cotillard and a Bowie-ish Adam Driver acquit themselves solidly, ‘She’s Out Of This World!’ pays exclamatory testimony to Sparks’ peerless art-pop midwifery.

the suicide squad

After a decade-long big-screen hiatus, composer John Murphy mobilises on all-fronts for a fullbodied return. After a punk-swaggering opener, Squad’s score is defined more by delicious deviation than consistency: a military march here, a Morricone moment there. Even if the results are inevitably tangential, the melancholy ‘Ratcatcher’s Story’ and King Shark’s dreamy bucolic reverie land ontarget beautifully.