"critical essay" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
For example, you could say: "I wrote a critical essay on Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights."
Then, write a critical essay about local art in the style of this critic.
An unpublished critical essay by André Bazin?
Appreciations (1889) is a return to the critical essay, this time largely on English subjects.
Their learning is culminated in a written critical essay about the universality of human understanding.
You want to read a book-length critical essay about Céline Dion.
At present, the American magazine essay, both the long feature piece and the critical essay, is flourishing, in unlikely circumstances.
"Rational Irrationalism" amounts to a provocative — and boldly illuminating — two-word critical essay on minimalist and post-minimalist art.
His most recent case, in 2009, involved a critical essay on the monarchy in an obscure journal.
— September 16 , 1961From a critical essay on Muriel Spark Detachment is the genius of her fiction.
— March 7 , 1964From a critical essay on Jorge Luis Borges What are we to make of him?
American Photographs, with a critical essay by Lincoln Kirstein, remains perhaps the most influential photography book of the modern era.
