Laconic and self-contained, Edward Wilson (Matt Damon) heads C.I.A. covert operations during the Bay of Pigs. The agency suspects that Fidel Castro was tipped, so Wilson looks for the leak. As he investigates, he recalls, in a series of flashbacks, his father's death, student days at Yale (poetry; Skull and Bones), recruitment into the fledgling O.S.S., truncated affairs, a shotgun marriage, cutting his teeth on spy craft in London, distance from his son, the emergence of the... (Full plot summary below)
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Laconic and self-contained, Edward Wilson (Matt Damon) heads C.I.A. covert operations during the Bay of Pigs. The agency suspects that Fidel Castro was tipped, so Wilson looks for the leak. As he investigates, he recalls, in a series of flashbacks, his father's death, student days at Yale (poetry; Skull and Bones), recruitment into the fledgling O.S.S., truncated affairs, a shotgun marriage, cutting his teeth on spy craft in London, distance from his son, the emergence of the Cold War, and relationships with agency, British, and Soviet counterparts. We watch his idealism give way to something else: disclosing the nature of that something else is at the heart of this movie's narration as he closes in on the leak.
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| The New YorkerDavid DenbyOne of the most impressive movies ever made about espionage. |
| Film Journal InternationalEthan AlterA historical drama that's as dry as a textbook. |
| San Francisco ChronicleWalter V. AddiegoRobert De Niro's The Good Shepherd is a remarkable study of the corrosive effects of fear and power on an establishment insider who puts duty above all else. |
| The Film YapNick RogersAs 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. |
| UGOBrian TallericoIn a mystery worthy of the CIA, The Good Shepherd ends up being both too long and too short. |
| eFilmCritic.comErik ChildressThe Good Shepherd is drama at its best, a complex meditation on the freedoms we take for granted and proof that just a little information about how we maintain them is way too much. |
| San Francisco ExaminerWalter AddiegoA remarkable study of the corrosive effects of fear and power on an establishment insider who puts duty above all else. |
| Lessons of DarknessNick SchagerSeems thoroughly conflicted about whether it actually buys what it's selling. |
| Aisle SeatMike McGranaghanThe Good Shepherd feels authentic because it keeps everything on a human scale. There's no mythologizing the agency; there's just a solid depiction of how it was shaped by human beings. |
| Denver Rocky Mountain NewsRobert DenersteinMoving from 1939 to 1961, an incident-heavy script finds enough material to keep several movies percolating, yet it seldom reaches a boil. |
