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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

LFF 2018: The Favourite review - Queen Anne's bizarre love triangle

Saturday, 20 October 2018 Read more...

LFF 2018: The Ballad of Buster Scruggs review - Wild West tales, and Redford and Jackman

Wednesday, 17 October 2018 Read more...

Informer, BBC One review - keeping tabs on terror

Wednesday, 17 October 2018 Read more...

LFF 2018: Colette review - zinging with zeitgeisty relevance

Friday, 12 October 2018 Read more...

First Man - Neil Armstrong's giant leap

Thursday, 11 October 2018 Read more...

The Cry, BBC One review - every parent's nightmare

Monday, 01 October 2018 Read more...

A Discovery of Witches, episode 2, Sky 1 review - when the sorceress met the vampire

Saturday, 22 September 2018 Read more...

Never Here review - conceptual art may damage your health

Wednesday, 19 September 2018 Read more...

Strangers, episode 2, ITV review - conspiracy theories multiply

Tuesday, 18 September 2018 Read more...

Killing Eve, BBC One review - the dying game

Sunday, 16 September 2018 Read more...

Lucky review - fabled character actor stars in his own obituary

Friday, 14 September 2018 Read more...

Black Earth Rising, BBC Two review - Blick's new blockbuster

Tuesday, 11 September 2018 Read more...

h 100 Awards: Broadcast - TV's national treasures

Monday, 13 August 2018 Read more...

The Negotiator review - Jon Hamm shines in Beirut-based thriller

Friday, 10 August 2018 Read more...

Age Before Beauty, BBC One review - mid-life makeover madness

Wednesday, 01 August 2018 Read more...

Hidden, Series Finale, BBC Four review - a whydunnit, not a whodunnit

Sunday, 29 July 2018 Read more...

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Palestine 36 review - memories of a nation

“Rebellion begins with a breath,” an opening aphorism declares in this first film recounting Palestine’s 1936-39 Arab Revolt, long historically...

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Janáček described his nature-versus-humanity fable The Cunning Little Vixen as “a merry thing with a sad...

Othello, Theatre Royal, Haymarket review - a surprising mix...

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After cancelling his Birmingham gig an hour before curtain-up due to illness, the anticipatory hype around whether...

Die My Love review - good lovin' gone bad

Directed by Lynne Ramsay and based on the book by Ariana Harwicz, Die My Love is an unsettling dive into the disturbed psyche of...