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Glengarry Glen Ross (1992) Rank 4 Reviews
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Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
DVD Confidential
Glengarry Glen Ross (the film version) should serve as a textbook example of how directors should approach adapting highly successful stage works to screen. Director James Foley, probably best known for the underrated At Close Range and the disastrous ...read the complete Glengarry Glen Ross movie review at DVD Confidential
The New York Times (Vincent Canby)
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 ...read the complete Glengarry Glen Ross movie review at The New York Times (Vincent Canby)
Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
The pleasure of this unique film comes in watching superb actors dine on Mamet's pungent language like the feast it is. ...read the complete Glengarry Glen Ross movie review at Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
Entertainment Weekly (Owen Gleiberman)
The movie version, directed with unobtrusive precision by James Foley, stays amazingly true to the play's feisty spirit. ...read the complete Glengarry Glen Ross movie review at Entertainment Weekly (Owen Gleiberman)
Chicago Reader (Jonathan Rosenbaum)
Rolling Stone
Al Pacino's real-estate salesman Ricky Roma slags his manager, John Williamson (Kevin Spacey): "You stupid fucking cunt. I'm talking to you, shithead. . . . Whoever told you you could work with ...read the complete Glengarry Glen Ross movie review at Rolling Stone
Film Written Magazine (Jaime N. Christley)
A brilliant work of art, performed by skilled actors who are all, without exception, in top form. ...read the complete Glengarry Glen Ross movie review at Film Written Magazine (Jaime N. Christley)
filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
Arizona Daily Star (Phil Villarreal)
Words fly with the speed and impact of bullets. ...read the complete Glengarry Glen Ross movie review at Arizona Daily Star (Phil Villarreal)
Natural Born Viewers (Rollo Tommassi)
Tail Slate (Kurt B. Davis)
Mamet’s been perfecting his trademark patter since his theatrical hits Sexual Perversity in Chicago and About Last Night in the mid-seventies, through his work on Hill Street Blues for television, and his successful film adaptations of The Postman ...read the complete Glengarry Glen Ross movie review at Tail Slate (Kurt B. Davis)
Xiibaro Productions (David Perry)
"When he died -- and by the way he died the death of a salesman, in his green velvet slippers in the smoker of the New York, New Haven and Hartford, going to Boston -- when he died, hundreds of salesmen and buyers were at his funeral. Things were sad on ...read the complete Glengarry Glen Ross movie review at Xiibaro Productions (David Perry)
Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
Al Pacino's real-estate salesman Ricky Roma slags his manager, John Williamson (Kevin Spacey): "You stupid fucking cunt. I'm talking to you, shithead. . . . Whoever told you you could work with ...read the complete Glengarry Glen Ross movie review at Rolling Stone (Peter Travers)
filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
Pacino should have won an Oscar for his performance as a land salesman/con-man in this ensemble piece about what happens on the other side of the phone line during those late night sales pitches you get. In this case it's real estate (worthless, of ...read the complete Glengarry Glen Ross movie review at filmcritic.com (Christopher Null)
Empire Magazine [UK]
AboutFilm.com (Jeff Vorndam)
Words are weapons in Glengarry Glen Ross. The salesmen inhabiting the shabby office of Premier Real Estate stab each other with invective and lay traps for their customers with their circumlocution. Every conversation is a sale. Every wheedle has a ...read the complete Glengarry Glen Ross movie review at AboutFilm.com (Jeff Vorndam)
Columbus CityScene (Rick Curnutte)
A brilliantly acted, tautly directed incarnation of David Mamet’s explosive office-politic treatise. ...read the complete Glengarry Glen Ross movie review at Columbus CityScene (Rick Curnutte)
The Onion (A.V. Club) (Noel Murray)
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 complete Glengarry Glen Ross movie review at The Onion (A.V. Club) (Noel Murray)
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
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 ...read the complete Glengarry Glen Ross movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
DVD Clinic (Mike Sampson)
As a kid (he said, aging himself horribly) there were certain movies that stuck out in our minds and lives much more vividly than the rest of the crap that was being launched down the Hollywood production line. And ranked among such movies as Goodfellas, ...read the complete Glengarry Glen Ross movie review at DVD Clinic (Mike Sampson)
Pedro Sena
It is the story of a few down and out real estate salesmen that are in one office, who are at the end of their ropes. Their selling abilities are now moved into a new style of hype and slickness, that underlies all the characters. Only that these guys ...read the complete Glengarry Glen Ross movie review at Pedro Sena
Screen Rant (Brian Rentschler)
It could be said that 1992 was Al Pacino's year. He appeared in Glengarry Glen Ross, which got him an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He also appeared in Scent of a Woman, for which he won the Oscar for Best Actor. In addition to all that, he ...read the complete Glengarry Glen Ross movie review at Screen Rant (Brian Rentschler)
Goatdog's Movies (Michael W. Phillips, Jr.)
There are seven roles in the film. Four of them, Levene, Roma, Dave, and George (played, respectively, by Jack Lemmon, Al Pacino, Ed Harris, and Alan Arkin), are salesmen faced with the loss of their jobs if they don't win this month's sales contest. The ...read the complete Glengarry Glen Ross movie review at Goatdog's Movies (Michael W. Phillips, Jr.)
UpcomingDiscs.com (Rod Edwards)
Artisan has come through with a well-executed 10 Year Anniversary Edition of Glengarry GlenRoss. Well-executed, yes. Exceptional, no. The highlights of this set are definitely the DTS audio track and the new Widescreen transfer. Both are so exceptional ...read the complete Glengarry Glen Ross movie review at UpcomingDiscs.com (Rod Edwards)
Nick's Flick Picks (Nick Davis)
One of the stand-outs in this formidable lineup is Oscar-nominated Al Pacino as the flamboyant Ricky Roma, the biggest breadwinner in the sham real-estate office supervised by milquetoast John Williamson (Kevin Spacey, who for once doesn't kill a single ...read the complete Glengarry Glen Ross movie review at Nick's Flick Picks (Nick Davis)
TV Guide Entertainment Network, Movie Guide
Another seamy slice of life from acclaimed playwright David Mamet, GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS is a searing showcase for a remarkable ensemble cast. This foul-mouthed drama revolves around a phony real estate operation, Premiere Properties, which gets a royal ...read the complete Glengarry Glen Ross movie review at TV Guide Entertainment Network, Movie Guide
Movie Habit (Marty Mapes)
John Williamson (Spacey) manages a shady real estate sales office. He gives each salesman two leads, two names of prospective buyers, each day. Lately the leads have been cold. The salesmen blame management for giving them lousy leads, but management ...read the complete Glengarry Glen Ross movie review at Movie Habit (Marty Mapes)
Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
The shabby real estate office in "Glengarry Glen Ross" seems likely to become one of the movie places we will remember, like the war room in "Dr. Strangelove" or Hannibal Lecter's cell. It is divided into two parts: a glassed-in area where the office ...read the complete Glengarry Glen Ross movie review at Chicago Sun-Times (Roger Ebert)
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