The phrase "a sort of critical" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when describing something that is somewhat critical or has a critical nature, often in a nuanced or less definitive way.
Example: "The report provided a sort of critical analysis of the current economic situation, highlighting both strengths and weaknesses."
Alternatives: "a kind of critical" or "a type of critical".
"You've got to create a sort of critical mass," he said.
"Obviously, what intrigued me was to offer a sort of critical reading of the novel, to deconstruct it in some sense," he said.
"There's a sort of critical mass of tough news," he said, with intensifying violence from the insurgency and between Sunnis and Shiites, a lack of effective Iraqi government and a growing concern that Iraq may be falling apart.
Norton's account is a sort of critical field guide to Straussians, taxonomizing their "variants and subspecies" and assessing the ways in which some of them have affected U.S. foreign policy.
(There is the phenomenon of directors exercising a sort of critical eye on the script, staging action in such a way as to reveal peculiarities of the story, but that's not the same thing as directing solely to create marginal ornament).
The center no longer holds; in fact, it hasn't held for a while, because, exactly as the bulk of filmmaking has shifted away from studio productions and virtually all movies except for franchises have become, in effect, independent films, movies have fallen into conflicting extremes of artifice and of reality, and the idea of reality has become a sort of critical cult.
From getting published to getting read to getting any sort of critical notice, it's a low-odds proposition all around, and as for material reward, well, definitely don't quit your day job.
The same thing will happen to these GICs if they achieve any sort of critical mass.
It does not offer precise movement, and seems like it would be impractical for trying to control it in any sort of critical operation without major future improvements.
Yet these headlines pop up breathlessly on the various movie websites, without any sort of critical filter.
It's easy to blame directors and messy scripts for DC's historic streak of objectively bad films only Wonder Woman has gotten any sort of critical love for DC since Christopher Nolan's Dark Knight trilogy ended but let's not forget that DC is a company so obviously stuck between two eras of heroism.
