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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

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

Thursday, 14 November 2024 Read more...

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

Friday, 08 November 2024 Read more...

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

Friday, 01 November 2024 Read more...

London Film Festival 2024 - Angelina Jolie does Maria Callas

Thursday, 24 October 2024 Read more...

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

Monday, 21 October 2024 Read more...

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

Friday, 18 October 2024 Read more...

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

Saturday, 12 October 2024 Read more...

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

Tuesday, 08 October 2024 Read more...

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

Saturday, 05 October 2024 Read more...

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

Tuesday, 01 October 2024 Read more...

Nightsleeper, BBC One review - strangers on a runaway train

Friday, 20 September 2024 Read more...

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

Friday, 13 September 2024 Read more...

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

Friday, 06 September 2024 Read more...

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

Wednesday, 04 September 2024 Read more...

theartsdesk Q&A: David Morrissey on (among other things) the return of 'Sherwood' and 'Daddy Issues'

Wednesday, 28 August 2024 Read more...

Sherwood, Series 2, BBC One review - maybe time isn't such a great healer

Monday, 26 August 2024 Read more...

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Mazeppa, Grange Park Opera review - a gripping reassessment

Tchaikovsky has precisely two operas in the standard repertoire (including The Queen of Spades, currently playing at Garsington), and...