Sandwiched between the blockbusters Sinners and A Minecraft Movie, and a host of faith-based projects such as The King of Kings and The Chosen: Last Supper trilogy, the espionage thriller The Amateur continued to attract a very specific demographic to theaters in its second weekend of release. The movie grossed around $14 million domestically, retaining a spot inside the top five of the domestic box office charts, as it successfully recovered its production budget theatrically. Not too long ago, director Steven Soderbergh’s similarly positioned Black Bag under-performed commercially, despite excellent reviews.

The marketplace isn’t conducive to mid-budget films aimed at adult audiences, despite the odd hit such as A Complete Unknown last year. But that movie, starring Timothée Chalamet, had Oscars attention going in its favor. The Amateur, on the other hand, comes across as a "Dad Movie" — the sort of thing that audiences might postpone watching until it hits the PVOD market.