The Good Shepherd Reviews

The Good Shepherd Review
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We live in an age when movies dealing with topics such as these must feature likable heroes and outlandish violence to keep the audience entertained, yet here is a movie that asks us not to sympathize with its protagonist - but merely to understand him...more

The Good Shepherd Review
by Mark R. Leeper
CAPSULE: Robert De Niro directs a near-epic-film of near-epic-length that nearly works. The subject is the origins and early days of the United States intelligence community. Mark Damon stars as a patrician but lackluster...more

The Good Shepherd Review
by Homer Yen
An operative in this film poses this question: "Why don't we put the word THE in front of CIA?" His response is interesting. "Do you put the word THE in front of God?" The purpose of the agency is far-reaching. But the means to reaching the...more