In 2014, Yahoo! named "The Devil's Advocate" as "Pacino's Most Underrated Film", claiming "Pacino's hammy devil never got his due" but "there's something to be said for an actor who can pull off this level of theatrics". In his "2015 Movie Guide", Leonard Maltin gave it three stars, finding Reeves credible and Pacino "delicious". Scott Mendelson wrote in "Forbes" in 2015 that "I love this trashy, vulgar, unapologetically puritan melodrama more than I care to admit". In 2016, "The Huffington Post" reported on an online debate over the possible symbolism in the costume design, as Lomax appears in suits that are light in the beginning, becoming increasingly darker as his morality slips away. The counterpoint is that this merely reflects his increasing social status.