Southside With You

Richard Tanne’s low-key film follows a charming first date. It just happens to be one involving the future president and first lady of the United States. Opening in August, the distributor Roadside Attractions put the movie on more than 800 screens in its first weekend, an unusually high number for an indie release, and earned $2.8 million with a larger per-theater average than “Suicide Squad” at the time, according to Box Office Mojo. It’s still in theaters now.

“Southside With You” has received mostly positive notices, although in her review, The New York Times’s Manohla Dargis said the characters were a little more admirable than the film itself: “Every so often, you catch a glimpse of two people seeing each other as if for the first time; mostly, though, the movie just sets a course for the White House.”