The phrase "negative critique" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to a critical evaluation or analysis that focuses on pointing out flaws or shortcomings in something. Example: "The author's book received mostly positive reviews, but one critic published a scathing negative critique, citing numerous plot holes and a lack of character development."
By David Denby Ravitch thinks that public education has been undermined by an exaggerated negative critique of the schools.
She is still not sure whether that was a positive or negative critique, but she did not forget it.
He continued, "If there is a negative critique of what I've done with this production, I hope it's 'He sucks as a director.' That I'll accept".
"The biggest negative critique of the state department in this area is built entirely around a straw man," insists Alec Ross, Clinton's senior adviser on innovation.
I call this the "disloyalty effect", whereby some critics, commentators and readers respond to what they feel is a negative critique of the national story: an act of ingratitude.
After some 90 minutes of negative critique of the green paper from his fellow MPs, Jonathan Djanogly wound the session up with a dry recitation of its contents, without giving away any potential significant concession – until the last moment.
I'd had some very aggressive, negative critiques there [in Turkey], the kind of thing I hadn't received anywhere else.
Opera News, 76 years old and one of the leading classical music magazines in the country, said on Monday that it would stop reviewing the Metropolitan Opera, a policy prompted by the Met's dissatisfaction over negative critiques.
The magazine, which is published by a fund-raising affiliate of the Met, is responding to the Met's objections to negative critiques of its recent staging of Wagner's "Ring" cycle and its approach to opera productions.
"I would not agree to do something like this unless there were some kind of prenuptial agreement that stated that I was free to express — and they were required to air — any negative critiques I might have of the new programming".
"I got some of the most negative critiques I have ever seen," he says.
