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The Debt

2010

John Madden

Jessica Chastain, Sam Worthington, Helen Mirren, Tom Wilkinson ...

6.4

14,776

Thriller. Drama The story begins in 1997, as shocking news reaches retired Mossad secret agents Rachel (Helen Mirren) and Stephan (Tom Wilkinson) about their former colleague David (Ciarán Hinds). All three have been venerated for decades by Israel because of the secret mission that they embarked on for their country back in 1965-1966, when the trio (portrayed, respectively, by Jessica Chastain, Marton Csokas and Sam Worthington) tracked down Nazi war ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Mick LaSalle SFGATE	"An exciting movie, full of crises and dramatic turns despite an aura of sadness that seems to pervade it"	POS
United States	Elizabeth Weitzman New York Daily News	"'The Debt' is nothing more than a gritty thriller with a highbrow pedigree (...) The cast is uniformly strong, making the story watchable even in its slower moments (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of five)"	POS
United States	A. O. Scott The New York Times	"It probes, with perhaps more energy than clarity, the ethical and psychological complications that can lie hidden beneath a story of simple heroism"	POS
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"The architecture of "The Debt" has an unfortunate flaw. The younger versions of the characters have scenes that are intrinsically more exciting, but the actors playing the older versions are more interesting (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of four)"	POS
United States	Betsy Sharkey Los Angeles Times	"A superbly crafted espionage thriller"	POS

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