How to say "critic" in Japanese

• 評者ひょうしゃCommon
  nounThe critic as the person who reviews a specific work: in book reviews, this is the individual writing the evaluation. It names the reviewer of a piece rather than a profession.
• 評論家ひょうろんかCommon
  nounThe critic as a profession or public role: someone who writes criticism and commentary, the sense behind 'commentator'. Choose it when 'critic' names what a person does.
  あらゆる芸術げいじゅつ評論家ひょうろんか達たちは無能むのうであり危険きけんな存在そんざいである。↗

  Regard all art critics as useless and dangerous.

Use 評者 for the critic as the reviewer of a particular work, as in book reviews; use 評論家 for a critic by profession or public role, someone who writes criticism and commentary.

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• 評者ひょうしゃcritic
• 評論家ひょうろんかcritic
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