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The Devil's Advocate

Mystery. Horror Promising young lawyer Kevin Lomax (Keanu Reeves) has never lost a case--even when his client is guilty. When Kevin is seduced away from his sleepy hometown in Florida to work for a flashy, charming lawyer (Al Pacino, in a role he seems born to play), his mother (Judith Ivey) has reservations. But as he works his way up the corporate ladder, Kevin manages to put them aside, along with his wife's (Charlize Theron) needs and the stirrings ... [+]
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San Francisco Chronicle
San Francisco Chronicle
"The Devil's Advocate is a sharp, suspenseful and completely satisfying movie"  POS
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Newsweek
Newsweek
"Written with brio and staged rousingly by director Taylor Hackford, the film is good, kitschy fun -- after all, how can you hate a movie that casts litigators as the new legions of Lucifer?" POS
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Variety
Variety
"A fairly entertaining supernatural potboiler that finally bubbles over with a nearly operatic sense of absurdity and excess"  POS
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Chicago Reader
Chicago Reader
"God save us when director Taylor Hackford decides to become a metaphysician and Al Pacino decides to demonstrate his genius by reading the phone book--or, to be precise, a script only slightly less repetitive and long-winded" NEU
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Austin Chronicle
Austin Chronicle
"Devil's Advocate is such a bloated, gargantuan, and ultimately tasteless juggernaut of a film that it manages to achieve a righteously cheesy splendor"  NEU
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