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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.
Miller is a preachy playwright who lets you know what you're supposed to think about everything that happens in his moral universe.
To Brit Hume ( FNS ), the appearance proves that when Hillary "applies herself and is not standing on a platform and being preachy or whatever, [she] can be an engaging and charming woman."
A "preachy history lesson," says Leah Rozen of People . Other pans dwell on the film's sentimentalization of Tibet and its skirting of its protagonist's Nazism.
Rehashing his favorite subject of New York City police corruption, Lumet slaps together, they say, an implausible plot (a year after law school, an ex-cop becomes a crusading district attorney), formulaic characters (bad-ass drug dealer, idealistic liberal defense lawyer), and preachy moralizing.