Glengarry Glen Ross Critic Reviews

The pleasure of this unique film comes in watching superb actors dine on Mamet's pungent language like the feast it is.Read the full review

The reason the film prompts laughter, and finally elation, is not because it's jolly or has any feel-good words to live by. It's because of the utterly demonic skill with which these foulmouthed characters carve one another up in futile attempts to stave off disaster.Read the full review

The movie version, directed with unobtrusive precision by James Foley, stays amazingly true to the play's feisty spirit.Read the full review

Gets most of its legs from the acting and the dialogue, which has such a rhythmic grace that scenes from the movie can be played and replayed with no loss of thump.Read the full review

Mamet's dialogue has a kind of logic, a cadence, that allows people to arrive in triumph at the ends of sentences we could not possibly have imagined. There is great energy in it. You can see the joy with which these actors get their teeth into these great lines.Read the full review

All the performances are exceptional.Read the full review

But it doesn't quite all come together here as it did onstage, and relentless scabrousness, heavy claustrophobia and a vaguely dated feel are among the elements that will keep mainstream audiences away.Read the full review