One of 2026’s Highest-Rated Crime Thrillers Gets an Official New Release [Exclusive]

Tuner is a tense crime thriller centering around a piano tuner with an ear for safecracking. It’s no surprise that a movie based in the world of music would have a complex, thrilling score, courtesy of composer Will Bates; and now, you’ll be able to bring it home. Decca Records is releasing the Tuner soundtrack on June 12, and Collider is proud to present a special preview track from the album.

The preview track, “Breaking Codes,” comes at a turning point in the story, as piano tuner Niki (Leo Woodall) realizes his finely-honed hearing can also be turned to crime. Collider had an opportunity to speak with Bates about the track; he explained how he composed the track to imply the presence of a piano without actually using the instrument itself.

Breaking Codes marks the first big shift in Niki’s story. As a byproduct of his hearing condition, Nikki discovers he has this safe-cracking ability. Daniel Roher and I wanted to see if we could elude to the piano, without ever actually incorporating its familiar sound. The track features my ‘Stimmgerat’, an East German 1960s piano tuning device which has a built in oscillator of 12 pitches. I layered it through old tape to build out the chords. And a lobotomized piano harp with midi triggered mallets provides mechanical, punctuating percussion.

Composer, musician, and multi-instrumentalist Will Bates has scored a spate of films, including Immaculate, The Voyeurs, and Dumb Money, and TV series like Mayfair Witches, NCIS: Tony & Ziva, and The Magicians. He also founded the music production company Fall On Your Sword. His work can next be heard in the Marc MaronLily Gladstone showbiz satire In Memoriam.































































Collider Exclusive · Oscar Best Picture Quiz
Which Oscar Best Picture
Is Your Perfect Movie?

Parasite · Everything Everywhere · Oppenheimer · Birdman · No Country

Five Oscar Best Picture winners. Five completely different visions of what cinema can be — and what it can do to you. One of them is the film that was made for the way your mind works. Ten questions will figure out which one.

Parasite

Everything Everywhere

Oppenheimer

Birdman

No Country for Old Men

01

What kind of film experience do you actually want?
The best movies don’t just entertain — they leave something behind.





02

Which idea grabs you most in a film?
Great films are driven by a central obsession. What’s yours?





03

How do you like your story told?
Form is content. The way a story is shaped changes what it means.





04

What makes a truly great antagonist?
The opposition defines the protagonist. What kind of opposition fascinates you?





05

What do you want from a film’s ending?
The final note is the one that lingers. What do you want it to sound like?





06

Which setting pulls you in most?
Where a film takes place shapes everything — mood, stakes, what’s even possible.





07

What cinematic craft impresses you most?
Every great film has a signature — a technical or artistic element that makes it unmistakable.





08

What kind of main character do you root for?
The protagonist is the lens. Who you choose to follow says something about you.





09

How do you feel about a film that takes its time?
Pace is a choice. Some films sprint; others let tension accumulate slowly, deliberately.





10

What do you want to feel walking out of the cinema?
The best films leave a mark. What kind of mark do you want?





The Academy Has Decided
Your Perfect Film Is…

Your answers have pointed to one Oscar Best Picture winner above all others. This is the film that was made for the way your mind works.

Parasite

You are drawn to films that operate on multiple levels simultaneously — that begin in one genre and quietly, brilliantly migrate into another. Bong Joon-ho’s Parasite is a film about class, desire, and the architecture of inequality that manages to be darkly funny, deeply suspenseful, and genuinely shocking across a single extraordinary running time. Your instinct is for cinema that hides its true intentions until the moment it’s ready to reveal them. Parasite is exactly that — a film that rewards close attention and punishes assumptions, right up to its devastating final image.

Everything Everywhere All at Once

You want it all — and this film gives you all of it. The Daniels’ Everything Everywhere All at Once is one of the most maximalist films ever made: action comedy, multiverse sci-fi, family drama, existential crisis, and a genuinely earned emotional core that sneaks up on you amid the chaos. You are someone who responds to ambition, who doesn’t want cinema to choose between being entertaining and being meaningful. This film refuses that choice entirely. It is overwhelming by design, and its overwhelming nature is precisely the point — because the feeling of being crushed by infinite possibility is exactly what it’s about.

Oppenheimer

You are drawn to cinema on a grand scale — films that understand history not as a backdrop but as a force, and that place their characters inside that force and watch what happens. Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer is a film about the terrifying gap between what we can do and what we should do, told with the full weight of one of the most consequential moments in human history behind it. You want your films to feel important without feeling self-important — to earn their ambition through sheer craft and the gravity of their subject. Oppenheimer does exactly that. It is enormous, complicated, and refuses easy comfort.

Birdman

You are drawn to films that foreground their own construction — that make the how of the filmmaking part of the what it’s about. Alejandro González Iñárritu’s Birdman, shot to appear as a single continuous take, is cinema examining itself through the cracked mirror of a fading actor’s ego. You respond to formal daring, to the feeling that a film is doing something that probably shouldn’t be possible. Michael Keaton’s performance and Emmanuel Lubezki’s restless camera create something genuinely unlike anything else — a film that is simultaneously about creativity, relevance, self-destruction, and the impossibility of ever truly knowing if your work means anything at all.

No Country for Old Men

You are drawn to cinema that trusts silence, that refuses to explain itself, and that treats dread as a form of meaning. The Coen Brothers’ No Country for Old Men is a film about the arrival of a new kind of evil — implacable, arbitrary, and utterly indifferent to the moral frameworks we use to make sense of the world. It is one of the most formally controlled films ever made, and its controlled restraint is what makes it so terrifying. You want your films to haunt you, not comfort you. You are not interested in resolution if resolution would be dishonest. No Country for Old Men is honest in a way that most cinema never dares to be.

What Is ‘Tuner’ About?

Woodall stars as Niki, a onetime piano prodigy whose over-sensitive hearing led him to pursue tuning pianos, instead. He finds that his heightened senses also make him a capable safecracker; although he’s not inclined to pursue a life of crime, he finds himself in need of money when his mentor, Harry (Dustin Hoffman), has a heart attack and starts racking up serious medical bills. Niki falls in with a gang of thieves to keep Harry and his family afloat, but he’s playing a more dangerous game than he realizes. Meanwhile, he’s also pursuing a romance with piano virtuoso Ruthie (Havana Rose Liu) — but with one false move, everything could be taken away from him.

Tuner is the first narrative fiction film by Oscar-winning Canadian documentarian Daniel Roher (Navalny); he also co-wrote the script with Robert Ramsey. The film premiered at the Telluride Film Festival last summer, and opened in theaters nationwide last month; it’s achieved almost universal acclaim, garnering a 94% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Tuner soundtrack will be released by Decca Records on June 12. Stay tuned to Collider for future updates.



Release Date

May 29, 2026

Runtime

109 minutes

Director

Daniel Roher


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