Middle of Nowhere
  • Studio: AFFRM
  • Release Date: Oct 12, 2012
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75 out of 100

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7.8 out of 10

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  • Starring: David Oyelowo, Edwina Findley, Emayatzy E. Corinealdi, Lorraine Toussaint
  • Summary: Middle of Nowhere follows Ruby, a bright medical student who sets aside her dreams and suspends her career when her husband is incarcerated. As the committed couple stares into the hollow end of an eight-year prison sentence, Ruby must learn to live another life, one marked by shame and separation. But through a chance encounter and a stunning betrayal that shakes her to her core, this steadfast wife is soon propelled in new and often shocking directions of self-discovery - caught between two worlds and two men in the search for herself. (AFFRM)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 15 out of 20
  2. Mixed: 5 out of 20
  3. Negative: 0 out of 20
  1. Salon.com
    Reviewed by: Andrew O'Hehir
    Oct 11, 2012
    100
    This is an elegant, powerfully emotional and courageous film, worth seeing entirely on its own artistic terms, and also for what it conveys about the complexity of African-American life and the resurgence of African-American cultural expression.
  2. Time Out New York
    Reviewed by: David Fear
    Oct 9, 2012
    80
    This is humanistic drama done right.
  3. Austin Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Marjorie Baumgarten
    Oct 24, 2012
    78
    This beautifully acted and gradually revealed drama is a quiet discovery. Not one to blare its own horn, Middle of Nowhere is the kind of little indie film that gives little indie films a good name.
  4. New Orleans Times-Picayune
    Reviewed by: Mike Scott
    Nov 2, 2012
    60
    In fact, "restraint" is the word that best characterizes DuVernay's film. This isn't a movie filled with overt action or outbursts of melodrama.

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  1. netflic
    9
    This movie is a complete opposite of an action movie. No car chases, no rapes, almost no guns.
    I am sure some people with find it slow and bo    ring. I find it deep and profound.
    This movie is about basic things in human life: about relationship between husband and wife, daughter and mother, sister and sister, man and woman.
    About situations where there is no obvious right or wrong.
    A movie superbly done.    … Expand
  2. dante_finn
    7
    This is a tough minded story of change that happens in almost imperceptibly tiny increments The director conveys a cleared eyed drama and adds a wonderful cast… Expand

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