The phrase "delicate movie" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to describe a film that deals with sensitive themes or has a gentle, nuanced approach to its subject matter.
Example: "The delicate movie explores the complexities of human relationships in a subtle and heartfelt way."
Alternatives: "sensitive film" or "nuanced film"
In The New York Times Janet Maslin called it "a lovely, lyrical, unexpectedly delicate movie" that "could even be mistaken for the work of David Lean".
Fainting, long thought to be the domain of delicate movie heroines, finally gets its due ("What Happens When the Heroine Faints," July 9).
In 2013, Jill Soloway directed "Afternoon Delight," a loopy, delicate movie about a depressed Los Angeles mother (Kathryn Hahn) who moves a stripper (Juno Temple) into her spare room.
The spirit of Ozu and family drama is revived in this lovely, delicate movie from the Japanese master Kore-eda: two nine-year-old brothers are forced to live apart when their parents split, taking one son each.
It imagines Holmes's obsession with his final case, both as it happens and later in his retirement, and Condon has described it as "a really great mystery about who Sherlock Holmes is, but it's also a lovely, delicate movie about what happens as you get older".
Although four stories, three fictional and one real, are folded together in Eric Khoo's elliptical film "Be With Me," the tale that gives this delicate, melancholic movie its backbone is the true one of its courageous central character, Theresa Chan.
"What gives this delicate, decorous movie its distinctive throb of melancholy sensuality is less the humdrum possibility of adultery than the intimation of a three-way entanglement involving the man, the woman and Cairo," A. O. Scott wrote in The Times.
But what gives this delicate, decorous movie its distinctive throb of melancholy sensuality is less the humdrum possibility of adultery than the intimation of a three-way entanglement involving the man, the woman and Cairo.
"What gives this delicate, decorous movie its distinctive throb of melancholy sensuality is less the humdrum possibility of adultery than the intimation of a three-way entanglement involving the man, the woman and Cairo," A. O. Scott wrote in The New York Times.
For all its delicate charms, the movie, shot in two weeks, is ragged around the edges and has a slack cynical ending (Holden).
There is roughhousing and delicate clowning, silent movie style; the actors stage pratfalls, battle props and use one another's bodies as pillows.
