A Star Is Born

At its peaks, the album delivers on the promise of its star-wattage with some of the most affecting and emotionally overwhelming pop songs of the year.

Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper make a bid for even greater Oscar glory on this emotional, effective OST

Its most powerful moments are among the best of Gaga's career.

There's a narrative to the soundtrack for Bradley Cooper's 2018 remake of A Star Is Born, one that mirrors the one told in the movie.

Unlike the film, there’s not nearly enough substance here to justify all the bombast.

Bradley Cooper shows he can sing as well as act and direct but it is Lady Gaga’s pop prowess that lifts each track, be it spectacular piano ballads or heart-rending duets

On its own terms, A Star Is Born makes for a very peculiar album, mixing grunge, Americana, country, soft-rock Seventies power ballads and slick modern digital RnB performed by a 21st-century pop powerhouse and a middle-aged actor singing in public for the first time.