The phrase "acute critic" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who is highly perceptive and insightful in their evaluations or judgments, particularly in the context of art, literature, or performance.
Example: "Her acute critic of the novel highlighted its underlying themes and character development in a way that resonated with the audience."
Alternatives: "keen critic" or "sharp critic".
The colonial interpretation, in which Caliban is a dispossessed aboriginal and Shakespeare an acute critic of Renaissance colonialism, is something the opera seems at first sight to sidestep.
This may be a touch severe or even judgmental -- the editorial spoke more of etiquette than of rights -- but there's something about that "in return," even so, that a less acute critic might have missed.
An acute critic, Régnier castigated François de Malherbe in an attack on the theory that poetry must conform to precise classical and intellectual standards (Satire IX, À Monsieur Rapin).
Because he was a fairly acute critic of his own poetry, his two Collected Poems (1947 and 1961) exclude most of his more awful pre- and post-great war poems, and you need Wilson's guiding hand to see that the conventional judgment is the correct one: that virtually all his good poems were written between 1914 and 1918 and a couple of years after.
He was an acute critic and arguer, with an exceptional degree of intellectual honesty for his, or any, period; philosophy for him was not only a matter of abstract speculation but also a way of life in which, through an exacting intellectual and moral self-discipline and purification, those who are capable of the ascent can return to the source from which they came.
Of course this does not mean that the artist must be a profound thinker or an acute critic; nor that he must be a pattern of virtue or a hero; but he must have a share in the world of thought and action which will enable him, either in his own person or by sympathy with others, to live the whole drama of human life.
Her own father is a writer, too; he is one of her most acute critics and - sometimes unintentionally - a great influence on her work.
The problem is most serious with non-fiction, but then most non-fiction books are written by men; it's also worth pointing out that we use dozens of women reviewers for non-fiction, who are among the best, most acute critics in the business".
The ever-acute critic Pauline Kael recognized this contradiction in a famous essay, "Come-Dressed-as-the-Sick-Soul-of-Europe Parties," which aroused the ire of Antonioni devotees like me.
A novelist and the author of an acclaimed biography of Donald Barthelme, Mr Daugherty is an evocative writer and an acute literary critic.
Countless cubic feet of hot, polluted air are regularly unleashed into the national atmosphere by politicians and commentators on the networks and the cable stations, making life almost too easy for our most acute press critic, Jon Stewart.
