His wife doesn’t love him, his son’s scared by him and he seems to be on better social terms with his enemies than his friends. Then again, we can’t quite blame them. We don’t like the guy either.
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01/03/07
The Good Shepherd (2006)
56
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Reviews Counted:161
Fresh:90
Rotten:71
Average Rating:6.1/10
Consensus: This fictitious CIA origin film is an overlong, tedious effort that leaves viewers with more questions than answers.
Runtime: 2 hrs 48 mins
Genre: Dramas
US Box Office: $59,839,040
Synopsis: With THE GOOD SHEPHERD, Robert De Niro (A BRONX TALE) makes an ambitious return to the director's chair. A labor of love for Oscar-winning screenwriter Eric Roth (FORREST GUMP), the film tells an... [More]
Starring: Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie, Joe Pesci, John Turturro
Director: Robert De Niro
Reviews for The Good Shepherd
41 - 60 (sorted by date; Australian critics are listed first)
Cool, cynical irony drips from every moment...
01/02/07
Intelligent and totally absorbing...The most underrated film of '06.
12/31/06
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12/30/06
Top CriticThe out-of-order sequencing adds little in terms of thematic structure, and thwarts all attempts to get swept up in the film's narrative flow.
12/30/06
This expertly made film is fascinating and gripping. And it's also so long that it feels like an entire TV series on DVD.
12/30/06
Robert De Niro's fictional take on the founding of the Central Intelligence Agency lacks two key components of the spy genre: suspense and action.
12/30/06
De Niro seems to be good with actors but less successful at stringing a movie together, and keeping it together, scene by scene.
12/30/06
...a dead-in-the-water hulk...
12/29/06
If you're a skeptic who's intrigued by government cover-ups and secret societies, let "The Good Shepherd" lead you into its web of deceit.
12/28/06
The final film is simply so emotionally neutered that it's impossible to care about what happens on the screen.
12/28/06
Robert De Niro directs a near-epic-film of near-epic-length that nearly works.
12/28/06
An intricately-plotted political potboiler which makes the idea of working for the CIA seem anything but romantic.
12/28/06
Even Schindler's List had moments of humanity and that was the freaking holocaust. Lighten up, dudes.
12/27/06
The psychological profile of Wilson ... is muted and torturously paced, though Damon's frosty Bourne Identity demeanor is perfect for the job.
12/27/06
(Robert) De Niro’s pacing and editing is so precise that you don’t want the story to end.
12/27/06
An impeccably designed production, The Good Shepherd shoots for greatness and almost gets there. The secret is out: It's just too darn long.
12/26/06
Two and a half hours of watching unidimensional Matt Damon is about two hours too much, especially considering the ludicrous characters with whom he plays here.
12/26/06
Stays with you long after a standard-issue espionage flick has dissipated in a hail of bullets.
12/26/06
Takes its half-truths, conspiracies and betrayals way more seriously than we do.
12/26/06
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