[9] La-La Land Records released the limited edition of the soundtrack pressed to 2,000 copies on May 18, 2021.

It's not ridiculously great or horrendously awful, it's just…nothing special" and criticised the decision for not featuring Jablonsky's themes.

[11] Anton Smit of Soundtrack World commented "This score is a good example of a well-implemented underscore for a movie.

It helps with enhancing the emotions that evoked in each scene, but it is just not that interesting to listen to as a stand-alone album- with the exception of the “Charlie” theme.

"[13] James Southall of Movie Wave wrote "it’s all fine, and shows that Marianelli could do more films like this if he wanted to – he’s demonstrated a side to himself that we didn’t really know was there – but while it’s obviously better than another generic Remote Control score, and while it is proper music, with at times ferociously complex orchestration, it’s not really the most memorable – it’s really in films like Kubo that he can really shine.