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[Hackford] seems stuck in a private limbo, unable to decide whether he's making a special-effects flick or a pop-philosophical tract.

-Rick GroenFull Review

The movie's greatest strength is that it becomes more complex and rewarding as it goes along.

-Mick LaSalleFull Review

Although it's nice for a film to be ambitious, there is such a thing as overreaching.

-Kenneth TuranFull Review

The movie never fully engaged me; my mind raced ahead of the plot, and the John Grisham stuff clashed with the Exorcist stuff.

-Roger EbertFull Review

As the movie approaches 2 1/4 hours, it begins feeling like eternal damnation.

-Mike Clark

The picture starts off slick and amusing, gets convoluted, draggy and strange round about the midway point, and ends up just plain ludicrous.

-Charles TaylorFull Review

A highly enjoyable motion picture that's part character study, part supernatural thriller, and part morality play.

-James BerardinelliFull Review

Lurid advance ads for Devil's Advocate make it look ridiculous. It's not.

-Janet MaslinFull Review

Far too bland and mediocre to really pull off such heavy handed themes...

-Felix Vasquez Jr.Full Review

Outrageously entertaining ... The picture's most superlative turn comes from Charlize Theron, who's a revelation in the first role to really show off her talents.

-Matt BrunsonFull Review

Stylishly seductive and well-acted by Al Pacino and Keanu Reeves, but thematically flawed, Taylor Hackford's film is yet another version of the Faustian morality tale.

-Emanuel LevyFull Review

This supremely silly supernatural potboiler is slickly entertaining for just under two hours and absolutely hilarious for 10 minutes near the end...

-Maitland McDonaghFull Review

This is tongue-in-cheek, fun thriller and a variation on a classic theme -- would you sell your soul to gain the whole world?

-Full Review

Regrettably, an overblown finale and redundant trick ending undercut the mild subversiveness of what's gone before.

-Nigel FloydFull Review

Great fun, with a mildly horrific edge, and a great portrayal of demonic glee by Al Pacino.

-Robin CliffordFull Review

Charlize Theron makes an incredibly good impression in the role of a woman with deteriorating mental health.

-Dragan Antulov

Despite its dull first hour, The Devil's Advocate becomes an OK, recommendable film.

-Eugene NovikovFull Review

Despite a wooden performance by Keanu Reeves, this is still a thoroughly enjoyable film for those who enjoy an intelligent horror flick.

-John R. McEwenFull Review

The worst thing about The Devil's Advocate is how it squanders the little chance that it had to be a truly creepy and engaging film.

-James RocchiFull Review

A literate meditation on human weakness and a hipped-out horror movie all in one.

-Margaret A. McGurkFull Review

A hell of a lot more fun than any film bearing John Grisham's name.

-Jeffrey Westhoff

O espetaculo final compensa.

-Pablo VillacaFull Review

Cackling and leering, Pacino puts on a great show, investing enough in his character to make him evil, but not so much that we think he's truly serious.

-James KendrickFull Review

One of those films that look good as a trailer, but the house of cards soon falls flat when the idea has to be sustained for 90 minutes.

-Robert RotenFull Review

Rarely do we actually encounter such a brazen example of the 'so bad it's good' genre of filmmaking.

-Marc SavlovFull Review

Some movies seem to have been made for just one scene, and disappointingly, The Devil's Advocate is one of them.

-Jeff ViceFull Review


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