"Glengarry Glen Ross" has a rating of 95% under Rotten Tomatoes based on 55 reviews. Under Metacritic, the movie has a score of 80 out of 100, meaning "generally favorable reviews". In his review in the "Chicago Sun-Times", Roger Ebert said: "Mamet's dialogue has a kind of logic, a cadence, that allows people to arrive at the ends of sentences we could not possibly have imagined."