The Good Shepherd (2006)Movies

The Good ShepherdI Amuse You? It’s a surprisingly respectful history of the CIA (or, as the movie points out, only lame-os not in CIA call it “the CIA”) directed by Robert De Niro and written by Eric Roth as told via a central character based on James Jesus Angleton (played by Matt Damon). Now, Angleton, who ran CIA’s counter-intelligence operation for many years, was a pretty interesting fellow, half Mexican by descent (his unWASPy middle name is “hay-zoos”). His many enemies within CIA thought he was a paranoid loon. But, in this movie he’s the most buttoned-down boring WASP spy imaginable. Damon’s CIA man is so superhumanly affect-less that he never even notices that he’s married to … Angelina Jolie, who seems to have...