Line of Duty, BBC One, series 5 finale review - big highs and Biggeloe

★★★★ LINE OF DUTY, SERIES 5 FINALE, BBC ONE Big highs and Biggeloe

A thrilling joust between superintendents, but the reveals lacked oomph. CONTAINS SPOILERS

The porn was a bit disappointing, was it not? Dear old Ted, no longer romantically active, admitted to being a user. The Superintendent Hastings fanclub sighed for sorrow to witness him toss away his status as an essentially decent heartthrob for the Saga generation. Sorry for your loss, ladies. It was also disappointing because the high-risk act of wiping his laptop turned out to have such a bathetic explanation. The 50k lying around in a brown envelope he clearly deemed to have less pressing potential for embarrassment.

Border review - genre-defying Oscar-nominated Swedish film

★★★★★ BORDER Quasi-Gothic fairytale delivers many dark surprises

A quasi-Gothic fairytale which delivers many dark surprises

This might just be the most challenging film review I’ve had to write in decades. The best thing would be to go and see Border knowing nothing more than that it won the prize for most innovative film at Cannes. Don't watch the trailer, and definitely don’t read those lazy reviewers who complete their word count by writing a detailed synopsis ruining every reveal and plot twist.

DVD: The Guilty

★★★★★ DVD: THE GUILTY Thrillingly tense police procedural that never leaves its one location

Thrillingly tense police procedural that never leaves its one location

It’s another night in an emergency services dispatch room in Copenhagen. Policeman Asger Holm has been taken off active patrol pending a conduct investigation and is stuck on the phones. Drunks, druggies, posh blokes complaining of being mugged in the red light district, he’s pretty brutal with these time-wasters. Then a call comes in from a desperate woman.

Crackdown 3 review - spectacular super-powered action that was great fun many years ago

Nearly a decade has passed since the last incarnation but little has changed in this stagnant shooter

Did you play videogames back in 2010? If you did, there’s a reasonable chance you played Crackdown 2. Only a reasonable chance as the game was just on Xbox 360 – this was back in the days when there was a lot more console-exclusive titles. But if you did play, you would know just how much fun this sprawling open world run, gun and mega jump game could be.

Endeavour, Series 6, ITV review - reassuringly accomplished return of the brainy copper

★★★★ ENDEAVOUR, SERIES 6, ITV Dexterous detection and psychological insights in satisfying season opener

Dexterous detection and psychological insights in satisfying season opener

The end of series five of Endeavour found PC George Fancy shot dead, Cowley police station closed and the old crew dispersed. With Led Zeppelin on the soundtrack (it’s 1969), the sixth series opened minus WPC Trewlove, but with Fred Thursday demoted and shunted off to Castle Gate police station.

Destroyer review - Kidman shines in middling crime drama

A cliched script and grim aesthetic sours a powerhouse performance

Destroyer. It’s an apt name. Like the film, it's grandiose and blunt. Nicole Kidman is almost unrecognisable (a requirement when aiming for nominations) as Detective Erin Bell, a damaged survivor of an undercover heist gone wrong. When her target resurfaces after 17 years, she must pull her life together to hunt him down and finally close the case, whatever it takes.

Monsters and Men review - an impressive debut

★★★★ MONSTERS AND MEN Dynamic drama on the impact of police brutality on black Americans

Dynamic yet subtle drama on the impact of police brutality on black Americans

This well-crafted addition to the films inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement is subtler and less commercial than last year’s The Hate U Give but covers similar terrain. Writer-director Reinaldo Marcus Green sets Monsters and Men in