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:

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