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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.
I don’t agree with a few items on the list, but B- for this film is definitely wrong. I think a B is more accurate, or a handful of other films need to be dropped down to B-.
The film has problems, but it’s also fun.
The Eternals should be at the bottom as it’s bad. Followed by Thor: Dark World and Cap 4 in with Quantumania and perhaps The Marvels as flawed, probably unnecessary, but still entertaining enough to be worth seeing.
For me Quantumania is the bottom. It’s the third Ant-Man film but only feels a little bit like an Ant-Man movie, drops the fun side characters, and is bad setup to a plotline that will never happen.
The Marvels is OK but ultimately rushed, which is similar to Brave New World. Brave New World got an extra 30 mins of screen time but instead of letting things breathe or taking time to build characters they just added in a bunch of new rushed plotlines.
Eternals had a similar problem, but I think they executed better. The bummer is that these are all new characters, so it’s harder to care.
Thor Dark World… it’s been a while since I’ve seen it and don’t have much desire to rewatch it… So yeah it can hang out near the bottom.