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The Good Shepherd

Starring: Matt Damon, Angelina Jolie

Directed by: Robert De Niro

RS: 2.5of 4 Stars

Robert De Niro's second stint sitting in a director's chair is an overly ambitious tale of the first decades of the CIA, told through the eyes of fictional agent Edward Wilson (Matt Damon). De Niro's a skilled director, and as in a Bronx Tale, he shows a particular sesnitivity for father/son, mentor/student relationships. There is much to praise in Shepherd: the acting is excellent, particularly Damon's iceman of a spy and the cinematography amazing but the non-sequential narrative gets way too murky, even given the subject matter, that you may just find yourself having to hit rewind.