While there are some “hard number” metrics to cite when it comes to how a movie is received, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic, IMDB, there’s one that gets circled back to more than others when it comes to audience reception: Cinemascore.

This usually measures what’s a “crowd pleaser,” skewing higher in terms of blockbusters a lot of the time as it tries to measure audience satisfaction. Now, Captain America has the lowest Cinemascore in MCU history, a B-, which may not sound that bad, but in context, it definitely is, especially when you see the overall chart. That would be:

edit: the list is missing some entries and has the ratings wrong for others, so I’ve redone it.

• A+
  • The Avengers
  • Avengers: Endgame
  • Black Panther
  • Spider-Man: No Way Home
• A
  • Ant-Man
  • The Avengers: Age of Ultron
  • Avengers: Infinity War
  • Black Panther: Wakanda Forever
  • Captain America: Civil War
  • Captain America: The Winter Soldier
  • Captain Marvel
  • Deadpool & Wolverine
  • Doctor Strange
  • Guardians of the Galaxy
  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
  • Iron Man
  • Iron Man 2
  • Iron Man 3
  • Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
  • Spider-Man: Far From Home
  • Spider-Man: Homecoming
  • Thor: Ragnarok
• A-
  • Ant-Man and the Wasp
  • Black Widow
  • Captain America: The First Avenger
  • The Incredible Hulk
  • Thor: The Dark World
• B+
  • Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness
  • Thor
  • Thor: Love and Thunder
• B
  • Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania
  • Eternals
  • The Marvels
• B-
  • Captain America: Brave New World

…

Initial box office receipts are pretty good, and better than other low-scored MCU movies, but this still has to be somewhat alarming for Marvel to have a movie received this poorly. As it stands, this is the third lowest scored film on Rotten Tomatoes, the lowest scored film on Metacritic and the lowest scored on Cinemascore now.