Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)

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 men?"

Ah, the sound of David Mamet -- vulgar, elliptical, tinged with mirth and malice. Mamet's gutter lyricism lit up his 1984 play Glengarry Glen Ross (it won a Pulitzer). Now Mamet and director James Foley (After Dark, My Sweet) want to get the urgency of those verbal pyrotechnics onscreen. They don't…

Digitally remastered and decked out with commentary and extras, this two-disc, tenth-anniversary edition does full justice to David Mamet's classic take on real-estate con artists. Plays usually don't work onscreen. Too talky and constricted. Not this time. Director James Foley delivers Mamet's Pulitzer Prize winner in high style. Pacino and the late Lemmon take the acting honors. But the whole cast excels, notably Alec Baldwin in a role specially written for the film.

PETER TRAVERS
(November…