by Stephen Thomas Erlewine
Following the disappointing performance of
Til the Band Comes In
, Scott Walker returned to middle-of-the-road pop with The Moviegoer. Assembling a set of songs from his favorite films, including compositions from
Michel Legrand
and
Henry Mancini
, Walker essentially created a harmless mainstream pop album and delivered it without much care. The record did boast some nice arrangements by
Johnny Franz
, but the music was seldom noteworthy.