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The Devil's Advocate

1997 · directed by Taylor Hackford · 144 min
22,745 feet · Prominence
1,585th of 24,106 films scored
The Rewatchables‘The Devil’s Advocate’ With Bill Simmons, Chris Ryan, and Van Lathan

How this film scores

Draw65

Lifetime worldwide gross $153m, re-releases included; about $315m in 2026 money.

Rank1,093 of 11,051In 199726 of 213

How Draw works

Inflation-adjusted worldwide box office, on one global curve, and nothing else. It does not know whether a film was good.

Praise63

Awards claim half the headroom above the critics' score.

Critics63 baseAwards0 signal → +0 lift

No award rows on file, usually missing data rather than missing honours. Wikidata is thin for older and non-English films.

How Praise works

Critics set the score; a tiered award record, Picture and Directing carrying the most weight, claims half the headroom above it. Praise is the verdict at the time; Legacy is the verdict since.

Legacy45

Judged directly: Pacino devil monologue endures, cult.

Verdict45 of 100IMDb7.5 from 440kWikipedia102k views a monthAge29 years

Scored beside it · 1,443 of 4,039 films judged

If it does not belong in this company, the number is wrong.

How Legacy works

Legacy is a judgment, not a formula. A film can be adored by critics and culturally quiet, or lightly reviewed and permanently lodged in the culture, and no arithmetic over IMDb numbers tells the difference. Every signal behind it keeps updating.

draw 65 praise 63 legacy 45averages 58, placing it at22,745 ft
How the three become one number

Added, not multiplied, so a film transcendent on one pillar and weak on another is not zeroed out. A compression curve then squeezes the top, because the seven greatest films ever made should not be four thousand feet apart.

Whose apex this is

▲ Don King

In these careers — elevation for this film

Al Pacino20,135 ftKeanu Reeves19,564 ftCharlize Theron19,168 ftConnie Nielsen18,051 ftCraig T. Nelson18,004 ftJeffrey Jones17,958 ftDelroy Lindo17,651 ftNeal Jones17,633 ftDon King17,632 ftPaul Benedict17,625 ft