Your view

My own view is that …

a number of reservations

One cause for concern is …

It is not necessarily the case that …

It does not necessarily follow that …

… begs the question …

One may question whether …

To claim here that …

… would be denying the fact that …

X claims, in my view wrongly, that …

the question is rather …

it is more likely that …

The point is surely rather that …

One could in fact also state that …

it would be more accurate to say that …

a more promising approach would be …

a more plausible explanation would be that …

It is important to make a distinction between …

It is important to distinguish between … and …

If the most important etc. factor had been …, then it would be expected that …

The author has clearly not understood …

The authors merely pay lip service to …

The paper offers little in the way of …

The paper offers little that is new.

The study offers only cursory examination of …

we should beware of throwing out the baby with the bathwater

While acknowledging the author’s contribution, …

While a valuable contribution in many respects, …

At the risk of offending …,

pace X

… must be examined more closely

… cannot be accepted as it stands

more needs to be said about …

However, given these reservations, …

Despite these reservations, …

Despite these limitations, …

Given these qualifications, …