Pauline Kael

 "Robert Aldrich may be laughing all the way to the bank, but I'm not cheering him on his way. The movie has one great asset: Bette Davis in a monstrous self-parody that, like the last screen performances of John Barrymore, triumphs over what to a lesser performer would be a humiliation."

-- Pauline Kael, Film Quarterly, Summer 1963