At the top of a list of Zimmer’s best work is “Interstellar,” the most emotionally rich soundtrack he has ever composed. As the story goes, he was given just a single page from director Christopher ...

Joaquin Phoenix, left, and Owen Wilson star in Paul Thomas Anderson's "Inherent Vice," which has one of our favorite soundtracks from 2014. (Warner Bros.) While I've still got a handful of movies from ...