The Devil's Advocate: Critic Reviews

92%

MovieWeb: 1 reviews

65%

RottenTomatoes: 48 reviews

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Entertainment Weekly (Top Critic)

67

Full Review » 15 years ago
Janet Maslin New York Times (Top Critic)

Lurid advance ads for Devil's Advocate make it look ridiculous. It's not.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Mike Clark USA Today (Top Critic)

63

As the movie approaches 2 1/4 hours, it begins feeling like eternal damnation.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Washington Post (Top Critic)

Full Review » 4 years ago
Houston Chronicle (Top Critic)

Full Review » 4 years ago
Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times (Top Critic)

63

The movie never fully engaged me; my mind raced ahead of the plot, and the John Grisham stuff clashed with the Exorcist stuff.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Susan Stark Detroit News (Top Critic)

25

Full Review » 4 years ago
Rick Groen Globe and Mail (Top Critic)

63

[Hackford] seems stuck in a private limbo, unable to decide whether he's making a special-effects flick or a pop-philosophical tract.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Charles Taylor Salon.com (Top Critic)

The picture starts off slick and amusing, gets convoluted, draggy and strange round about the midway point, and ends up just plain ludicrous.
Full Review » 12 years ago
James Berardinelli ReelViews (Top Critic)

75

A highly enjoyable motion picture that's part character study, part supernatural thriller, and part morality play.
Full Review » 12 years ago
Kenneth Turan Los Angeles Times (Top Critic)

Although it's nice for a film to be ambitious, there is such a thing as overreaching.
Full Review » 11 years ago
Maitland McDonagh TV Guide's Movie Guide

63

This supremely silly supernatural potboiler is slickly entertaining for just under two hours and absolutely hilarious for 10 minutes near the end...
Full Review » 4 years ago
Film4

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 » 4 years ago
Nigel Floyd Time Out

Regrettably, an overblown finale and redundant trick ending undercut the mild subversiveness of what's gone before.
Full Review » 6 years ago
Robin Clifford Reeling Reviews

75

Great fun, with a mildly horrific edge, and a great portrayal of demonic glee by Al Pacino.
Full Review » 7 years ago
Dragan Antulov rec.arts.movies.reviews

60

Charlize Theron makes an incredibly good impression in the role of a woman with deteriorating mental health.
Full Review » 8 years ago
Eugene Novikov Film Blather

42

Despite its dull first hour, The Devil's Advocate becomes an OK, recommendable film.
Full Review » 9 years ago
John R. McEwen Film Quips Online

80

Despite a wooden performance by Keanu Reeves, this is still a thoroughly enjoyable film for those who enjoy an intelligent horror flick.
Full Review » 9 years ago
James Rocchi Netflix

60

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.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Margaret A. McGurk Cincinnati Enquirer

75

A literate meditation on human weakness and a hipped-out horror movie all in one.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Jeffrey Westhoff Northwest Herald (Crystal Lake, IL)

75

A hell of a lot more fun than any film bearing John Grisham's name.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Mick LaSalle San Francisco Chronicle

100

The movie's greatest strength is that it becomes more complex and rewarding as it goes along.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Boxoffice Magazine

Full Review » 10 years ago
Pablo Villaca Cinema em Cena

80

O espetaculo final compensa.
Full Review » 10 years ago
Boston Phoenix

Full Review » 10 years ago