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One well-meaning critic called it the best Grisham movie since The Firm . This is sad: Francis Ford Coppola, the director of The Godfather , The Godfather Part II , The Conversation , Rumble Fish , and Apocalypse Now and the winner of five Academy Awards, is being praised for making the second-best John Grisham movie.
The latest installment in the Grisham legal thriller franchise gets good press: It's "personal, moving and much deeper" than his previous books, writes Deirdre Donahue in USA Today . Critics say this one is better because Grisham goes beyond his usual dabbling in social causes and injects honest-to-God Christian spirituality, and with success: "Grisham's smart use of the suspense novel to explore questions of being and faith puts him squarely in the footsteps of Dickens and Graham Greene" ( Publishers Weekly ). A few reviewers find the overt Christianity preachy and self-righteous, but most say it improves an otherwise standard page-turner.
Dissenters complain that Grisham's plot is unbecoming material for a director of Altman's caliber.
Grisham, by contrast, begins with the law and derives the criminal.
Grisham's achievement is to use this inverted narrative to create a sense of purpose in his novels--to make them seem consequential.