[Thor Joachim Haga]

I would like to reiterate that even if you haven’t heard any new scores in 2025, or taken note of any archival releases, ANYTHING GOES in this thread. Classical, pop, rock, electronic, whatever. As long as it was released in 2025.

Now that some time has passed, I can just as well post my lists here, for anyone possibly interested. But I do still recommend listening to the podcast linked in the first post for music clips and reasonings.

TOP 20 FILMS (NORWEGIAN PREMIERE DATES):

1. 28 Years Later (Boyle)
2. Arcadian (Brewer)
3. The Gorge (Derrickson)
4. A House of Dynamite (Bigelow)
5. Marty Supreme (Safdie)
6. Nobody 2 (Tjahjanto)
7. Affeksjonsverdi (Trier)
8. Keeper (Perkins)
9. Ash (Flying Lotus)
10. The Exit 8 (Kawamura)
11. Presence (Soderbergh)
12. Avatar: Fire and Ash (Cameron)
13. Fremmed: Det første opgør (Hedegaard)
14. Ice Grave (Hunzinger)
15. Bugonia (Lanthimos)
16. Predator: Badlands (Trachtenberg)
17. Weapons (Cregger)
18. Black Phone 2 (Derrickson)
19. One Battle After Another (Anderson)
20. The Astronaut (Varley)

Honourable mentions: Tron: Ares (Rønning), F1: The Movie (Kosinski), Warfare (Mendoza), Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning (McQuarrie), The Naked Gun (Schaffer), Den stygge stesøsteren (Blichfeldt), Please Don’t Feed the Children (Spielberg), The Lost Bus (Greengrass)

Worst movies: Mickey 17, The Man in My Basement, Bloat, Eddington, Heim, War of the Worlds, Superman

TOP 25 FEATURE FILM SOUNDTRACKS:

1. Marty Supreme – Daniel Lopatin
2. New Wave – Greg Bernall & Chris Upton
3. Dark Sanctuary: The Story of the Church – Joe Virus
4. The Surfer – Francois Tetaz
5. Slocum et moi – Pascal le Pennec
6. Highest 2 Lowest – Howard Drossin
7. L’oro del Reno – Marco Pedrazzi
8. The Shrouds – Howard Shore
9. Point of Change – Stephen Warbeck & Lewis Morison (festival 24)
10. F1 – Hans Zimmer
11. Hollywood Grit – Nick Gomez
12. Patsers – Hannes de Maeyer
13. Moi qui t’amais – Philippe Sarde
14. The Doom Busters – Ben Pearson
15. Nachtvlinders – Merlijn Snitker
16. Three Days of Fish – Christiaan Verbeek
17. Kaamelott – Deuxième Volet (Partie 1) – Alexandre Astier
18. A Light in the Harbor – Taro Iwashiro
19. Four Letters of Love – Anne Nikitin
20. Swiped – Chanda Dancy
21. Le Routard – Ludovic Bource
22. Presence – Zack Ryan
23. A Necessary Escape aka Dakar Chronicles – M83
24. Where the Wind Blows – Jason Livesay & Nolan Livesay
25. Ash – Flying Lotus