"devastating review" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is often used to indicate a negative evaluation or opinion that has a strong emotional or destructive impact. For example: "The author received a devastating review from the New York Times that ultimately sunk their book's sales."
David Gates's devastating review of Elliot Perlman's "Street Sweeper" (Jan . 29 reflects an old debate about fiction's value.
When Wassily Kandinsky, Franz Marc and others started the Blaue Reiter group, they managed to get only one exhibition and one devastating review.
As the Chicago geneticist Jerry Coyne wrote recently, in a devastating review of Behe's work in The New Republic, it would be hard to find a precedent.
It is almost a decade since Lord Woolf's devastating review of civil justice found it was not the Rolls-Royce of justice that lawyers claimed it to be.
The man turns out to be Jonathan Burns Brad Fraizerr), a young playwright, who is still furious over a devastating review that Simon gave his last play.
After Mr. Canby's devastating review, Mr. Cimino's 219-minute cut was immediately withdrawn, and the following spring the director himself fashioned a 148-minute recut, which was released and quickly died at the box office.
The movie received devastating reviews and tanked at the box office.
And perhaps the most destructive part of the experience is that, rather than experiencing the succès d'estime of connoisseurs' acclaim despite commercial failure, these filmmakers endured devastating reviews from critics who insulted not only the films but their makers.
The movie didn't even have a regular New York release; it was put in theatres as part of a double feature in March , 1969 at which time it got generally devastating reviews.
The other team -- which includes Bono and the Edge of U2 -- creates "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark," which limped through months of devastating reviews, creative upheaval and aerial acrobatics that went scarily wrong on a few occasions, and finally reached opening night last Tuesday.What made the difference between boffo success and brutal struggles?
In the book's introduction, the actor David Schwimmer, a founder of the Chicago-based Lookingglass Theater Company, writes: The stories of financial crisis, loss of faith, bitter disagreements, devastating reviews, horrific audience attendance, emergency room visits, and brink-of-disaster saves are too numerous to detail.
