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By Amy Biancolli (582) for Houston Chronicle (970) on 22 Dec 2006

The Good Shepherd is a painstakingly composed film, as planned and programmed and puzzled over as tactical maneuvers on a chessboard…

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By Alex Markerson (73) for E! Online (838) on 22 Dec 2006

It's surprising that this three-hour tour of thirty-some years of history moves as well as it does…

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By Tom Long (1,693) for Detroit News (2,682) on 22 Dec 2006

Painfully overlong, weighed down by its own self-conscious seriousness and filled with nonsurprises, The Good Shepherd will appeal only to…

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By Terry Lawson (645) for Detroit Free Press (942) on 22 Dec 2006

The Good Shepherd is a quietly sweeping, intensely intelligent and nail-biting history of the Central Intelligence Agency…

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By Robert Denerstein (1,148) for Denver Rocky Mountain News (608) on 22 Dec 2006

Moving from 1939 to 1961, an incident-heavy script finds enough material to keep several movies percolating, yet it seldom reaches a boil…

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By Chris Vognar (609) for Dallas Morning News (1,592) on 22 Dec 2006

Told with a visual efficiency that belies the film's considerable length, Shepherd is a muscular, unsentimental movie about shadow warriors…

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By Jim Emerson (69) for RogerEbert.com (5,563) on 22 Dec 2006

If you think George Tenet's Central Intelligence Agency was a disaster, wait until you see Robert De Niro's torpid, ineffectual movie about…

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By Sara Michelle Fetters (1,688) for MovieFreak.com (1,674) on 22 Dec 2006

But so what…

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By Jeffrey M. Anderson (3,573) for Combustible Celluloid (2,644) on 22 Dec 2006

While [De Niro is] a whiz with actors, he's no Francis Coppola, and his calculated, observant tone grows cold…

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By Angela Baldassarre (259) for Sympatico.ca (259) on 22 Dec 2006

Unfortunately a heavy pace and an unnecessary time-jumping device mar The Good Shepherd…

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By Peter Canavese (1,744) for Groucho Reviews (1,725) on 22 Dec 2006

The film finally resembles nothing so much as its most persistent symbol: an objet d'art crafted to impress with empty trickery…

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By John Beifuss (1,947) for Commercial Appeal (Memphis, TN) (1,944) on 22 Dec 2006

Seems to have been inspired by two of De Niro's more celebrated movies, 'The Godfather Part II' and 'Once Upon a Time in America'; if it lacks…

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By Ethan Alter (997) for Film Journal International (5,095) on 22 Dec 2006

A historical drama that's as dry as a textbook…

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By James Sanford (927) for Kalamazoo Gazette (860) on 22 Dec 2006

An offbeat epic, a chronicle of espionage and skullduggery that features little in the way of traditional action…

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By Eleanor Ringel Cater (614) for Atlanta Journal-Constitution (910) on 21 Dec 2006

[Robert De Niro has] made one of the best pictures of the year…

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By Brian Orndorf (4,059) for OhmyNews.com (129) on 21 Dec 2006

The tempo takes some getting used to, but it's only a matter of time before the sinister urge of the C.I.A…

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By Jeffrey Chen (849) for ReelTalk Movie Reviews (1,771) on 21 Dec 2006

The movie remains only academically involving…

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By Eric D. Snider (2,489) for EricDSnider.com (2,026) on 21 Dec 2006

Solid, respectable filmmaking, egregiously overlong (a plague this time of year, it seems) but still highly watchable…

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By Devin Faraci (498) for CHUD (345) on 21 Dec 2006

The Good Sheperd feels like it escaped from a parallel world that never experienced the one-two punch of Jaws and Star Wars and instead based…

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By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 21 Dec 2006

The 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…

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