The Good Shepherd
The tumultuous early history of the Central Intelligence Agency is viewed through the prism of one man's life. As the country slips deeper into the Cold War, he finds that dedication to duty above family has a price.
6 January 1972, Brooklyn, New York, USA
February 9, 1972 in New York City, New York, USA
16 August 1978, Brunswick, Maine, USA
14 September 1961, Munich, Bavaria, Germany
8 June 1982, Santa Monica, California, USA
10 June 1968, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
10 August 1978, New Jersey, USA
7 July 1978, Pennsylvania, USA
19 June 1936, Belleville, New Jersey, USA
December1970, Cranbury, New Jersey, USA
9 October 1970, Elmira, New York, USA
4 June 1975, Los Angeles, California, USA
5 August 1962, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
28 September 1965, Fort Belvoir, Virginia, USA
22 May 1981, Bronx, New York, USA
17 August 1943, New York City, New York, USA
1 March 1978, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
February 28, 2008
You will probably come away from it impressed but unmoved.
February 03, 2007
De Niro juggles the myriad big-picture parts with reserved professionalism; it's the central character, ironically, that's the movie's Achilles' heel.
December 22, 2006
It's like watching a fish stare at you from inside the magnifying wall of an aquarium, and about as exciting.
January 15, 2008
A isappointing hybrid that's too bloated, diffuse and tedious to work as a regular length movie -- yet has not enough emotional range or narrative focus to be considered a great epic drama.
September 24, 2010
As a punishingly ambiguous and astonishingly thorough tragedy, "The Good Shepherd" shows that emotions as human as any errors can undermine intelligence and questions whether God and country alone can be enough for a man's soul.
February 15, 2007
The film's watchable enough if you're indulgent of its flaws but at 167 minutes it does tax the patience.
January 03, 2007
No previous American film has ventured into this still largely unknown territory with such authority and emotional detachment. For this reason alone, The Good Shepherd is must-see viewing.
April 23, 2009
Stylistically engaging, narratively murky, historically worthless.
June 27, 2007
Seems thoroughly conflicted about whether it actually buys what it's selling.
December 22, 2006
The mesmerizing espionage thriller chronicles the inception and ascendancy of the CIA.
October 25, 2007
Damn near drowns itself with its unwaveringly solemn sense of importance
December 30, 2006
De Niro seems to be good with actors but less successful at stringing a movie together, and keeping it together, scene by scene.
