"incisive criticism" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a criticism that is direct yet insightful. For example, "His incisive criticism revealed a deep understanding of the issue."
His humane, engaged, and incisive criticism made him an invaluable guide to that art.
He also contributed lively and incisive criticism to newspapers and magazines and was known for encouraging new literary voices.
David Schweizer, the director, creates a rhythm that is palpably musical to bind together the narrative, the opera in the throes of labor and the playwright's incisive criticism.
He won the seat outright in 1982 and rose to national prominence in 1987 with his incisive criticism of Oliver North at the Senate hearings over the Iran-Contra Affair.
"If you scratch a great hero, you find a complete ass," says Pennington of the tragic protagonists; and he sees, in the plays written in the Jacobean era, a sharp, incisive criticism of privilege and the corruption, treachery and dissimulation within the court.
One reviewer called it "vintage Lewis – incisive criticism leavened with high-blown rhetoric".
Supporters of Ayatollah Montazeri take their cue from his incisive criticisms of the Islamic Republic in his speeches and open letters.
One of the most incisive criticisms that can be made against so-called open world games, in which the player is free to pursue goals of their own making, is the equality of importance that's placed on plot missions and side-quests.
For incisive criticisms of this claim, see Banerjee, Huebner, & Hauser (2010), Sytsma & Livengood (2011), and Lam (2010).
Beyond this scathing assessment of current American funding (and training) practices, Brenner has incisive criticisms of peer review, journal publishing, and the American method of training Ph.D. researchers.
Armed with acute, incisive criticisms Beet successfully tackles college, though the topic is so easily satirized that its not a worthy adversary for the author.
