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The Good Shepherd

2006

Robert De Niro

Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, Michael Gambon, John Turturro ...

6.4

16,876

Drama. Thriller. Mystery 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 ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	David Denby The New Yorker	"One of the most impressive movies ever made about espionage."	POS
United States	Manohla Dargis The New York Times	"De Niro does fine in his avuncular role and, in the main, even better as the film’s director."	POS
United States	Jim Emerson rogerebert.com	"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)"	NEG
United States	Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times	"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."	POS
United Kingdom	Alex von Tunzelmann The Guardian	"There are enough plots here for 16 taut, exciting spy movies, or one big dull one."	NEG
United Kingdom	Kim Newman Empire	"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)"	NEU
United States	Todd McCarthy Variety	"[The result] is not boring, exactly, but undeniably tedious (...) [The] lack of excitement and suspense will translate into a quick commercial fade."	NEG

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