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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

Landman, Paramount+ review - once upon a time in the West

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Gladiator II review - can lightning strike twice?

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Paris Has Fallen, Prime Video review - Afghan war veteran wreaks a terrible vengeance

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The Day of the Jackal, Sky Atlantic review - Frederick Forsyth's assassin gets a modern-day makeover

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Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, Disney+ review - the Boss grows older defiantly

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London Film Festival 2024 - Angelina Jolie does Maria Callas

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Rivals, Disney+ review - adultery, skulduggery and political incorrectness

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London Film Festival 2024 - Daniel Craig, Amy Adams, Twiggy, Christopher Reeve and some snails

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London Film Festival 2024 - the Vatican, the Blitz, a trip to Poland and a surfin' nightmare

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The Hardacres, Channel 5 review - a fishy tale of upward mobility

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Joan, ITV1 review - the roller-coaster career of a 1980s jewel thief

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The Penguin, Sky Atlantic review - power, corruption, lies and prosthetics

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Nightsleeper, BBC One review - strangers on a runaway train

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The Perfect Couple, Netflix review - an inconvenient death ruins lavish Nantucket wedding

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The Third Man rides again - 75th anniversary of Carol Reed's noir classic

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Slow Horses, Season 4, Apple TV+ review - Gary Oldman returns as the 'gross and inappropriate' Jackson Lamb

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