critical review

Questions about critical review

What does critical review mean?

critical review means "an essay or article that gives a critical evaluation (as of a book or play)".

What is another word for critical review?

Close synonyms include review, critique, review article. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is critical review a common word?

critical review is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.