Possible Clues:

• Critical moment taking in probe that's malfunctioning
• The ____ (1950) was the second film version of the Ernest Hemingway novel To Have and Have Not
• Critical moment for collapse
• Making pencil unusable is the last straw
• Critical stress on tip, it may be inferred
• Silly ego trip in bank when situation gets critical
• Server’s problem about gin spilt in tense moment
• Having accident with pencil? It's a critical moment