This is a fine film with a touching, exhilarating story, a compelling script, top-notch production values and tight direction. It can't be a great film, because you know the outcome or it would not have been made in the first place, so there is no true dramatic tension. The political message is powerful and the Innocence Project, which is admirable and staffed by enlightened, committed lawyers every bit as admirable as the lead players of the movie, is the real star, and their star keeps rising. The flat-footed depiction and compression of the law education detracts from the story line: at one point she is about to flunk out, and the next thing you know she's passed the bar. This is worth going to see, and you wish that creep the prosecutor were not beyond the statute of limitations. Remember: if Massachusetts had a death penalty a grievous error would have been committed but for the heroes this film depicts.
Review of Conviction
