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Adam Sweeting

Adam Sweeting's reviews only count toward the Tomatometer® when published at Tomatometer-approved publication(s).
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Shelter (2026) 62% 4/5 EDIT “Formulaic and utterly Statham-esque though it is, Shelter is a tight and punchy thriller, directed with no-frills efficiency by Ric Roman Waugh...” – The Arts Desk Jan 28, 2026 Full Review The Rip (2026) 79% 4/5 EDIT “It’s nail-biting stuff, and well worth 112 minutes of your time.” – The Arts Desk Jan 20, 2026 Full Review Rental Family (2025) 87% 5/5 EDIT “A delicate and shrewdly-observed web of comedy, irony, tragedy and cultural confusion, Rental Family is a little treasure.” – The Arts Desk Jan 20, 2026 Full Review Avatar: Fire and Ash (2025) 66% EDIT “It’s a staggering technical feat – or stream of technical feats – but this is not where you’d come looking for subtly nuanced dramatic performances or cunningly multi-layered narratives. ” – The Arts Desk Dec 19, 2025 Full Review The Session Man: Nicky Hopkins (2023) 4/5 EDIT “... you can tell [The Session Man is] a labour of love, not least from the credit-list of contributors who lobbed in their own money to help get the film made, and from the genuine affection and respect a roll-call of stars afford to Hopkins’ memory.” – The Arts Desk Dec 1, 2025 Full Review Die My Love (2025) 74% 4/5 EDIT “Directed by Lynne Ramsay and based on the book by Ariana Harwicz, Die My Love is an unsettling dive into the disturbed psyche of Grace, played with mercurial brilliance by Jennifer Lawrence.” – The Arts Desk Nov 5, 2025 Full Review Wasteman (2025) 100% EDIT “Driven by its two strong leads and McMau’s tightly-focused direction, this flick should go far.” – The Arts Desk Oct 17, 2025 Full Review Alpha (2025) 56% EDIT “The resulting aura of fear and impending doom gives Ducournau a fraught crucible within which to examine issues of prejudice, paranoia and racism in a society being torn from its moorings. ” – The Arts Desk Oct 17, 2025 Full Review Springsteen: Deliver Me from Nowhere (2025) 61% EDIT “...the film suffers not only from the absence of an ending – it just drifts to a halt – but also from an irritating sense of self-regard, as if even an emotionally disturbed Boss must only be treated with semi-mystical awe.” – The Arts Desk Oct 17, 2025 Full Review The Chronology of Water (2025) 90% EDIT “It’s not always pretty, but Imogen Poots delivers a brave and committed performance as Lidia, and if Stewart occasionally gets a little too gratuitously experimental, this is a feature debut to be proud of.” – The Arts Desk Oct 17, 2025 Full Review Is This Thing On? (2025) 86% EDIT “The device of having [Will Arnett's character] improvise self-analysis in front of an audience is an ingenious way of sketching in details of story and character, while his improving comic skills,...deliver a dose of genuine laughs.” – The Arts Desk Oct 17, 2025 Full Review Lurker (2025) 95% EDIT “It’s an intriguing premise, and Lurker makes some shrewd points about the imbalance between stars and star-f******, though it starts to run out of gas as the story develops.” – The Arts Desk Oct 15, 2025 Full Review A Private Life (2025) 81% EDIT “It’s a mostly enjoyable watch, but the film itself seems to be in need of a therapist.” – The Arts Desk Oct 15, 2025 Full Review Ballad of a Small Player (2025) 48% EDIT “It’s a film that at first glance might feel slight, but it surreptitiously steals up on you and hits you where it hurts. ” – The Arts Desk Oct 15, 2025 Full Review Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery (2025) 92% EDIT “...this is a hugely entertaining addition to the Knives Out canon. ” – The Arts Desk Oct 15, 2025 Full Review Spinal Tap II: The End Continues (2025) 65% 1/5 EDIT “Where This Is… revelled in its role as a guileful satire on a sleazy, feckless rock business and the grotesque and ludicrous personalities that inhabited it, Tap 2 has a sad, autumnal feel, more like a requiem than a celebration or even a demolition.” – The Arts Desk Sep 15, 2025 Full Review The Naked Gun (2025) 87% 3/5 EDIT “It’s no all-time classic, but it delivers a decent dose of guffaws.” – The Arts Desk Aug 4, 2025 Full Review Jurassic World Rebirth (2025) 50% 4/5 EDIT “Thrills, chills and fun for all the family? Well yes, actually. It’s nothing you haven’t seen before, but it's delivered with panache.” – The Arts Desk Jul 2, 2025 Full Review F1 The Movie (2025) 82% 4/5 EDIT “ Pitt plays [Sonny] with a laid-back, down-home charm which is impossible not to like.” – The Arts Desk Jun 26, 2025 Full Review The Phoenician Scheme (2025) 77% 3/5 EDIT “You might argue that The Phoenician Scheme is little more than fanciful nonsense – I might be tempted to do so myself – but once on board you'll want to stick around for the ride, even if much of it is barely comprehensible.” – The Arts Desk May 23, 2025 Full Review Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning (2025) 80% 3/5 EDIT “Previous M:I movies have tickled our pleasure-centres with their mixture of sensational action scenes and the wisecracking matiness of Hunt and his team, but the team seem a little short on joie-de-vivre this time around. ” – The Arts Desk May 22, 2025 Full Review The Accountant 2 (2025) 75% 4/5 EDIT “If you’re looking for gritty realism it isn’t here, and yet the film wrings some real emotion from its themes of betrayal and abuse and crime and punishment. And it has some good jokes.” – The Arts Desk Apr 25, 2025 Full Review Neil Young: Coastal (2025) 80% 3/5 EDIT “Coastal isn’t going to convert a bunch of new fans to the ways of Neil, and even long-time supporters might wish for a bit more action and possibly a few different songs.” – The Arts Desk Apr 19, 2025 Full Review The Amateur (2025) 62% 3/5 EDIT “The Amateur would make a fairly painless night out, but never threatens to bust any new frontiers. Agreeable but not indispensable.” – The Arts Desk Apr 10, 2025 Full Review The Alto Knights (2025) 40% 2/5 EDIT “It’s a serviceable plot, though sorely lacks the explosive tension-and-release and cathartic mayhem you might have expected from a Scorsese-ised version of it.” – The Arts Desk Mar 21, 2025 Full Review
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