It never fully compels or meshes as the emotionally driven, multilayered, grown-up thriller it yearns to be.

| Aug 31, 2018

The film delivers both as a love story and as an old-fashioned espionage thriller that no amount of implausibility can spoil.

| Oct 9, 2011

The result is a sturdy, often suspenseful piece, but one that delivers less than it promises.

Full Review | Oct 4, 2011

The performances are what counts, and Mirren and Chastain certainly deliver.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 30, 2011

Solid, workmanlike storytelling is what's on offer in this meaty thriller with robust and satisfying star turns...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 29, 2011

There's the overall feeling of hard work not quite paying off, but the gorgeous and game Chastain quietly salvages everything she can.

Full Review | Sep 29, 2011

John Shakespeare In Love Madden directs, but literary larks in the Globe are a long way from the laboured, catchpenny lucubrations of this global retribution tale.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 29, 2011

Vaughn and Goldman chose the wrong vehicle.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 29, 2011

'The Debt' tackles themes of humanity, revenge and truth so successfully it's hard not to find it powerful - even if it's not the Oscar bait it might have hoped to be.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 27, 2011

Offers something for those looking for a film with more on its mind than simple set-pieces.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 26, 2011

After a gripping first half, turns into one howler after another. And yet it's still gripping.

| Sep 6, 2011

There is an awkward, irresoluble tension between the movie's urge to thrill and the weighty pull of the historical obligations that it seeks to assume. How much, to be blunt, should we be enjoying ourselves?

| Sep 6, 2011

So The Debt, much like the State of Israel, has some existential problems. So much of it is good, however, that it is easy to ignore some misguided steps.

Full Review | Original Score: B | Sep 2, 2011

Vogel's introduction, 'This is my hand, and this is the speculum,' may at last have displaced the 'Is it safe?' of Christian Szell--another Mengele stand-in--as the most discomfiting sentence ever uttered by doctor to patient onscreen.

| Sep 2, 2011

Based on an acclaimed Israeli film from 2007, this mostly retains the feeling of a foreign thriller, without succumbing to aggressive Hollywoodization.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 2, 2011

Worthington shows a greater range and vulnerability here than he did in either Avatar or Clash of the Titans, where he mostly just flexed his pecs. He may be a genuine movie star yet.

| Sep 2, 2011

The movie works very well as a thriller that benefits from some ambitious aspirations and superb performances...But it spins out of control in the last 20 minutes.

| Original Score: B | Sep 1, 2011

Rather than focus on the evil of the Nazi villain, it wallows in the collective regret of three Israeli Mossad agents who in 1966 let the bad guy slip away when they had him in their clutches.

| Original Score: C- | Sep 1, 2011

There are movies you want to like that just won't let you.

Full Review | Sep 1, 2011

The direction and performances remain as solid as ever, but they're both growing obscured by the top-heavy plot.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 1, 2011