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The Good Shepherd

6.4

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Original title: The Good Shepherd
Year: 2006
Running time: 160 min.
Country: United States
Director: Robert De Niro
Screenwriter: Eric Roth
Music: Bruce Fowler, Marcelo Zarvos
Cinematography: Robert Richardson
Cast: Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, Michael Gambon, John Turturro, William Hurt, Robert De Niro, Eddie Redmayne, Tammy Blanchard, John Sessions, Martina Gedeck, Alec Baldwin, Lee Pace, Oleg Shtefanko, Billy Crudup, Keir Dullea, Joe Pesci, Mark Ivanir, Timothy Hutton, Henry Gummer, Gabriel MachtSee 7 More
Producer: Tribeca Productions, Universal Pictures, Morgan Creek Productions, American Zoetrope
Genre: Drama. Thriller. Mystery | Spy Film. Cold War. 1940s. 1960s
Synopsis: Edward Wilson, the only witness to his father's suicide and member of the Skull and Bones Society while a student at Yale, is a morally upright young man who values honor and discretion, qualities that help him to be recruited for a career in the newly founded Central Intelligence Agency. While working there, his ideals gradually turn to suspicion influenced by the Cold War paranoia present within the office. Eventually, he becomes an influential veteran operative, while his distrust of everyone around him increases to no end. His dedication to his work does not come without a price though, leading him to sacrifice his ideals and eventually his family.

Awards: 2006: 1 Academy Award Nominee: Best Art Direction

2007: Berlin Film Festival: Silver Bear - Outstanding Artistic Contribution (Ensemble Cast)

2006: Boston Society of Film Critics Awards: Nom. for Best Supporting Actor (Baldwin)

Critics' reviews

"One of the most impressive movies ever made about espionage."

David Denby: The New Yorker
"De Niro does fine in his avuncular role and, in the main, even better as the film’s director."

Manohla Dargis: The New York Times
"It is unlikely, however, that any awards (...) will be bestowed upon De Niro or his plodding writer, Eric Roth, for their misfeasance (…) Rating: ★★ (out of 4)"

Jim Emerson: rogerebert.com
"It’s taken a dozen years for Eric Roth’s smart, thoughtful, psychologically complicated script to reach the screen under Robert De Niro’s careful and methodical direction, and it is easy to see why."

Kenneth Turan: Los Angeles Times
"[The result] is not boring, exactly, but undeniably tedious (...) [The] lack of excitement and suspense will translate into a quick commercial fade."

Todd McCarthy: Variety
"There are enough plots here for 16 taut, exciting spy movies, or one big dull one."

Alex von Tunzelmann: The Guardian
"There’s a lot of fascinating history here, and Roth and De Niro make a fair fist of retelling it through one man’s story — but for such a long film, it’s surprisingly shallow (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"

Kim Newman: Empire

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