The Root reports:
With the highest per-screen average of any movie playing this past weekend, Ava DuVernay’s Middle of Nowhere might be the forerunner of a new genre in black film: one that favors slow-boiling drama over deep-fried histrionics.
Opening in only five markets, Middle of Nowhere pulled in “a healthy” $13,000 per-location average, according to Entertainment Weekly. On Friday the film got a heavy stamp of approval from Oprah Winfrey, whose Facebook page read, “I saw the film and was so moved by it. I think you will be too.”