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75Tautou, who looks even smaller and more fragile alongside her towering leading man, conveys the hurt and hesitancy that are pulling at her character's heart - and does so with seeming effortlessness. It's as though she knows this woman, deep down.
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75Delicacy is a sweetheart of a love story, and cornball from stem to stern.
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75The latest Audrey Tautou film, Delicacy, is sensitive and well acted and fits under the general category of "good movie," and yet it would be hard to get excited about it.
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67Comedic actor François Damiens mines but never mocks Markus' awkwardness, thereby creating a winning portrait in decency. His tracing, with the ever-luminous Tautou, of the slow bloom of new love is a thing of understated beauty.
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67The movie is caught between the poignancy of the everyday and the exaggerations of fiction.
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63It is Markus's sensitivity to nuance and to the feelings of others that characterizes every step that he - and this sure-footed if off-kilter film - takes.
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63"Unpredictable'' is one adjective you could use to describe the new Audrey Tautou movie, Delicacy. Others might be "charming,'' "offbeat,'' "droll.'' "Unfocused'' and "underwhelming'' also apply.
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63Delicacy bears a slight whiff of Anthony Minghella's fantastic "Truly Madly Deeply," but while Minghella's film is a romantic comedy classic, Delicacy hovers just this side of memorable.
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60You might think that spousal bereavement and whimsical romantic comedy would make uneasy bedfellows, and you'd be somewhat right, as the debut from French duo Stéphane and David Foenkinos doesn't quite reconcile the divide between premise and tone.
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60Delicacy isn't going to set anybody's psyche on fire with its insights into grieving and emotional recovery, but as a crepe-thin romantic snack, it has its moments.
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60Delicacy is not a very good movie. But it is entertaining enough -- barely enough -- to make it worth seeing.
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55Delicacy is phony in ways that might seem drearily familiar to audiences weaned on American romantic comedies.
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50The two stars appear to be as bewildered by the turn of events as we are.
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50The movie is a pleasant way to spend time in the dark, especially for Francophiles, but it won't leave any lasting impression.
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50It's a lightweight romance that occasionally shows a sense of humor but seems afraid to turn it loose.
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40Gently sweet but unmemorable bonbon.
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Mar 13, 201240It's a rebound-romance movie that's simplistic but sweet, an uncomplicated cinematic bonbon. It'll only take a few quick bites, however, before you'll be ready to move on to something meatier.
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40Tautou, playing workaholic widow Nathalie in Delicacy, gives off a sexless, cutie-pie charm - not as aggressively as she did in "Amélie," but still gratingly. The actress, therefore, is perfect for this dainty, inconsequential romantic dramedy.
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Mar 12, 201240Tautou is fine but clearly typecast as another whimsical pixie with strong melancholy undercurrents.
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Mar 12, 201240A flat-footed and seriously unsexy romantic dramedy.
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38Now that Zooey Deschanel has taken a detour into TV land, is Audrey Tautou the most insufferable pixy presence in cinema today?