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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

Hypnotic review - a riotously enjoyable thriller

Sunday, 28 May 2023 Read more...

Inland review - a cracked mosaic of memories, impressions and lurking anxiety

Wednesday, 24 May 2023 Read more...

Ten Pound Poms, BBC One review - a new life in the Great Southern Land

Monday, 15 May 2023 Read more...

A different angle on the Anne Frank story in 'A Small Light'

Wednesday, 03 May 2023 Read more...

Fatal Attraction, Paramount+ review - Adrian Lyne's bunny-boiler blockbuster expanded onwards and outwards

Tuesday, 02 May 2023 Read more...

Citadel, Prime Video review - did Amazon really pay $300m for this?

Sunday, 30 April 2023 Read more...

The Diplomat, Netflix review - can London's new American ambassador prevent World War Three?

Saturday, 29 April 2023 Read more...

Malpractice, ITV1 review - she got into a mess on the NHS

Monday, 24 April 2023 Read more...

How To Blow Up a Pipeline review - can eco-terrorism be justified?

Friday, 21 April 2023 Read more...

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?, ITV1 review - Agatha Christie gets a tense and twisty reworking by Hugh Laurie

Monday, 10 April 2023 Read more...

Magpie Murders, BBC One review - zinging TV adaptation of Anthony Horowitz's bestseller

Saturday, 08 April 2023 Read more...

Rabbit Hole, Paramount+ review - sabotage, subterfuge and corporate skulduggery

Monday, 03 April 2023 Read more...

Villeneuve Pironi: Racing's Untold Tragedy, Sky Documentaries review - a macabre slice of motor racing mythology

Saturday, 01 April 2023 Read more...

John Wick: Chapter 4 review - is this the El Cid of shoot-'em-up movies?

Saturday, 25 March 2023 Read more...

Infinity Pool review - it's like The White Lotus on bad acid

Friday, 24 March 2023 Read more...

Play Dead review - chills, thrills and stolen body parts

Thursday, 16 March 2023 Read more...

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The first Jurassic Park movie now seems virtually Jurassic itself, having been released in the sepia-tinged year of 1993. Directed with...

Album: Mocky - Music Will Explain (Choir Music Vol. 1)

Dominic “Mocky” Salole has had a long career in which the tension between authenticity and pastiche has been a constant. Toronto-born, of English...

Semele, Royal Opera review - unholy smoke

Poor, slightly silly Semele fries at the sight of lover Jupiter casting off his mortal form, but in Congreve’s and Handel’s supposedly happy...

Sudan, Remember Us review - the revolution will be memorised

In 2019, French-Tunisian journalist and documentary filmmaker Hind Meddeb flew to Sudan after the overthrow of hated dictator Omar al-Bashir,...

Le nozze di Figaro, Glyndebourne review - perceptive humanit...

Over 100 years ago, John Christie envisaged Wagner’s Parsifal with limited forces in the Organ Room at Glyndebourne. He would have been...

Quadrophenia, Sadler's Wells review - missed opportunit...

The red, white and blue bull’s-eye on the front curtain at Sadler’s Wells tells us we are in the familiar territory of Pete Townshend’s...

Fidelio, Garsington Opera review - a battle of sunshine and...

Sometimes, as the first act of Beethoven’s Fidelio closes, the chorus of prisoners discreetly fade away backstage as their brief taste of...