Favorite Critical Punctures/Jabs/Skewerings

[David]

When those two profiles come together as they sing "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life," it's beyond kitsch, it's in a realm of its own.
--Pauline Kael on Nelson Eddy & Jeanette MacDonald in "Naughty Marietta" (1936)

One can't judge Wagner's opera "Lohengrin" after a first hearing, & I certainly don't intend hearing it a second time.
--Rossini

Richard Burton seems to be announcing his availability for Vincent Price roles.
-- Gary Arnold

Since Godard's films have nothing to say, we could perhaps have ninety minutes of silence instead of each of them.
--John Simon

Oh, hell, I can kill five guys & have 'em buried in the time it takes him to kill one.
--Howard Hawks on Peckinpah