with Clooney's acting, but also found Damon's performance "whiplash". In 2006, Damon joined Robert De Niro in "The Good Shepherd" as a career CIA officer, and played an undercover mobster working for the Massachusetts State Police in Martin Scorsese's "The Departed", a remake of the Hong Kong police thriller "Infernal Affairs". Assessing his work in the two films, Manohla Dargis of "The New York Times" wrote that Damon has the unique "ability to recede into a film while also being fully present, a recessed intensity, that distinguishes how he holds the screen." "The Departed" received critical acclaim and won the Academy Award for Best Picture.