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Adam Sweeting

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Former features editor of Melody Maker, Adam has written on rock, classical music and television for the Guardian, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph, Independent on Sunday, Uncut, Classic FM and Gramophone, and on motor-racing for Motorsport. He co-founded The Virtual Television Company, which made Mr Rock'n'Roll (Channel 4), Pavarotti: The Last Tenor (BBC2 Arena) and Imagine - Nigel Kennedy (BBC One)

Articles By Adam Sweeting

The Way, BBC One review - steeltown blues

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Kin, Series 2, BBC One review - when crime dynasties collide

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Bob Marley: One Love review - sanitised official version of the Jamaican icon's story

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Griselda, Netflix review - Sofía Vergara excels as the Godmother of cocaine trafficking

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Argylle review - Matthew Vaughn's secret agent fantasy dares you to deny it

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Masters of the Air, Apple TV+ review - painful and poignant account of the Eighth Air Force's bombing campaign

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True Detective: Night Country, Sky Atlantic review - death in a cold climate

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Criminal Record, Apple TV+ review - law and disorder in Hackney

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Poor Things review - other-worldly adaptation of Alasdair Gray's novel

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The Tourist, Series 2, BBC One review - an amnesiac Jamie Dornan explores his Irish roots

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Best of 2023: TV

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The Kemps: All Gold, BBC Two review - bickering with the Ballet boys

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Murder Is Easy, BBC One review - was this journey really necessary?

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Mad About the Boy: the Noël Coward Story, BBC Two review - the making of The Master

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A Ghost Story for Christmas: Lot No 249, BBC Two review - mummy's boy unleashes hell in the halls of academe

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The Heist Before Christmas, Sky Max review - the Santa Claus wars

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As the Middle East continues to fragment in hate and horror, a tragic unfolding of events with roots reaching back to the middle of the last...

Music Reissues Weekly: The Devil Rides In - Spellbinding Sat...

Just over two weeks before Christmas 1967, The Rolling Stones issued Their Satanic Majesties Request. The album’s title appeared to serve...

Things Will Be Different review - lost in the past

Time-travel is a trap in debutante Michael Felker’s tender sf two-hander, whose title’s grim irony becomes gradually apparent.

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Joan, ITV1 review - the roller-coaster career of a 1980s jew...

If you’re looking for an advertisement for how crime doesn’t pay, Joan will do very nicely....

National Ballet of Canada, Sadler's Wells review - see...

What to expect of the National Ballet of Canada since its last...

Lear, Barbican Theatre review - a very stormy saga, Korean-s...

What do the cult TV show Squid Game and National Changgeuk Company of Korea’s Lear have in common? Oddly, a K-Pop...

Album: Goat - Goat

With the Pagan festival of Mabon and the Autumnal Equinox only just past us, it seems appropriate for Scandi psychedelic rockers, Goat to provide...

Monet and London, Courtauld Gallery review - utterly sublime...

In September 1899, Claude Monet booked into a room at the Savoy Hotel. From there he had a good view of Waterloo Bridge and the south bank beyond...

Joker: Folie à Deux review - supervillainy laid low

“Psychopaths sell like hotcakes,” William Holden observed in Sunset Boulevard in 1950, and those individuals have been doing...

A Tupperware of Ashes, National Theatre review - family and...

Queenie is in trouble. Bad trouble. For about a year now, this 68-year-old Indian woman has been forgetful. Losing her car keys; burning rice in...