critique

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A critical evaluation or analysis, especially one dealing with works of art or literature.
• transitive verb To evaluate or analyze critically.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A critical examination or review of the merits of something, especially of a literary or artistic work; a critical examination of any subject: as, Addison's critique on “Paradise Lost.”
• noun The art or practice of criticism; the standard or the rules of critical judgment: as, Kant's “Critique of the Pure Reason.” Also critic.
• noun An obsolete spelling of critic, 1 and 2.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun rare The art of criticism.
• noun A critical examination or estimate of a work of literature or art; a critical dissertation or essay; a careful and thorough analysis of any subject; a criticism.”
• noun obsolete A critic; one who criticises.
• transitive verb obsolete To criticise or pass judgment upon.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun Essay in which another piece of work is criticised, reviewed, etc.
• verb US To review something.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb appraise critically
• noun an essay or article that gives a critical evaluation (as of a book or play)
• noun a serious examination and judgment of something