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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

Hellbound, Netflix review - supernatural assassins usher in an age of terror

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The Unforgivable review - Sandra Bullock gets stuck in a doom-struck rut

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The Beatles: Get Back, Disney+ review - 1969 revisited in Peter Jackson's three-part documentary

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Dopesick, Disney+ review - the harrowing inside story of America's OxyContin scandal

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Bruised review - Halle Berry takes the blows and does it her way

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Showtrial, BBC One review - drama a cut above the rest

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Dalgliesh, Channel 5 review - doleful detective fails to fire on all cylinders

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Temple, Series 2, Sky Max review - more calamitous adventures of rogue surgeon Daniel Milton

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Shetland, Series 6, BBC One review - too many cooks and too many crooks

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Invasion, Apple TV+ review - sci-fi epic or a pile of space junk?

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All Creatures Great and Small, Series 2, Channel 5 review - familiar formula continues to satisfy

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Squid Game, Netflix review - murderous game show hits the ratings jackpot

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The Starling, Netflix review - a slender idea unsatisfyingly executed

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Schumacher, Netflix review - authorised version of the life of an F1 legend

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The North Water, BBC Two review - a terrible voyage into the great beyond

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The Collini Case review - it might be legal, but that doesn't mean it's justice

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