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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

Oppenheimer review - epic and enthralling study of 'the father of the atomic bomb'

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World on Fire, Series 2, BBC One - return of Peter Bowker's panoramic view of World War Two

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Disturbing Disappearances, More4 review - headstrong 'tec tackles Pied Piper mystery

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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, BST Hyde Park review - Saturday in the park with Bruce

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Tom Clancy's Jack Ryan, Season 4, Prime Video review - final outing for John Krasinski's CIA hero

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Hijack, Apple TV+ review - trapped at 40,000 feet with a bunch of armed thugs

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Spiral of Lies, Channel 4 review - bodies, fibs and bad karma in Biarritz

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Turn of the Tide, Netflix review - cocaine madness comes to the Azores

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No Hard Feelings review - nothing about this queasy comedy feels quite right

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Best Interests, BBC One review - a family feels the unbearable strain of terminal illness

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Chevalier review - a less than extraordinary film about an extraordinary man

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Hypnotic review - a riotously enjoyable thriller

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

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

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

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

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