‘Glengarry Glen Ross’ Review: Kieran Culkin, Bob Odenkirk Lead a Surprisingly Humane New Broadway Revival

variety.com:

Daniel D'Addario Chief TV Critic Bob Odenkirk has, in recent years, been best-known for the role of Jimmy McGill, a desperate lawyer constantly attempting to find an advantage — ethics be damned — on TV’s “Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul.” Little wonder, then, that he is among the actors doing excellent work in Broadway’s new revival of “Glengarry Glen Ross,” playing, once again, an amoral creature searching for his next big score.

And, as he’s done before on TV, Odenkirk finds a small measure of pathos in his grifter, too. David Mamet’s pitch-dark story of a real-estate boiler room churns with egos and with desire to foist unappealing parcels of land on naive and easily fooled buyers, and yet Levene, who is certain he can reverse a streak of bad luck if only he is given names of better potential clients, hasn’t entirely lost his humanity.

Odenkirk treats his character’s pain with a gentle touch, showing us a man who’s a loser, but whose desperate attempts to push past obsolescence represent moving attempts to grasp for a win.

In the main, this is a surprisingly humane “Glengarry” — and that’s no criticism, but it does mean this production is a bit of a surprise.