‘Glengarry Glen Ross,’ John Williamson (1992)
"Harris, Arkin, Pryce and Spacey (as the salesmen's dry-ice manager) are uniformly good." — Desson Howe, Washington Post
"Harris, Arkin, Pryce and Spacey (as the salesmen's dry-ice manager) are uniformly good." — Desson Howe, Washington Post
"The picture's raison d'être has to be Spacey's 'loud and nasty' performance: he's the sort of actor who grabs you by the throat and beats you about the head without ever lifting his feet from the desk." — Geoff Andrew, Time Out
"Spacey's balls-out brilliant performance is Oscar bait all the way, a match for his priceless turn earlier this year as a pit-bull Hollywood producer in Swimming With Sharks." — Peter Travers, Rolling Stone
"Kevin Spacey, consolidating his position as Hollywood's preeminent character player, is the creepiest psycho since John Lithgow in Blow Out." — Staff, TV Guide
"Mr. Spacey is at his insinuating best, languid and debonair, in a much more offbeat performance than this film could have drawn from a more conventional star." —Janet Maslin, The New York Times
"He's cynical. He's funny. He's angry. He's rueful. He's a mean truth teller and sometimes a curiously tender one. Best of all, he makes the transitions between these and a dozen other emotions heedlessly, without warning or visible preparation." — Richard Schickel, Time
"Kevin Spacey, both as star and director, has created a hugely entertaining, highly empathetic portrait of a man for whom music was literally the thing that kept him alive." — Kirk Honeycutt, The Hollywood Reporter
"This is really Spacey's picture, from the moment he fixes his gaze on Sturgess to the day when he finally, brutally cuts him loose. It's a fun performance, but a quiet one." — Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger
"Spacey does his best work since American Beauty as a tired middle-aged corporate warrior whose greatest compassion, in the end, is reserved for an ailing dog he has to put to sleep." — Lou Lumenick, New York Post
"Spacey's performance combines instinctive, stage-commanding authority with lovely, droll touches of drop-dead understatement." — Paul Taylor, The Independent
"Spacey tears into this role the way Francis Underwood tears into the ribs at his favorite local restaurant (or the way he'd tear into that metaphorical whale). It's a great, theatrical performance from the two-time Oscar winner, doing his first significant series work since he played incestuous crime lord Mel Profitt on Wiseguy." —Alan Sepinwall, Hitfix