JOHN MADDEN’S The Debt (15A) opens in modern Israel, with Rachel (Helen Mirren) attending the launch of her daughter’s book, which details a mission carried out by three Mossad agents in East Berlin during the 1960s.

Writer-director Kevin Smith ('Clerks', 'Zack And Miri Make A Porno') abandons the raucous comedies which have made his name and fortune, for this brutal and uncompromising thriller.