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  • ‘Cocaine Bear’ Lines Up a B- CinemaScore

    ‘Cocaine Bear’ Lines Up a B- CinemaScore

    It looks like an Internet sensation. Cocaine Bear has finally received its CinemaScore and it has now landed at a B-. That is surprising given that the first trailer and its current Rotten Tomatoes rating have it more on the positive side. With a 74% Audience Score and 71% Critic Reception would bode well for the film, but the usual horror fair just doesn’t always jell with audiences and commonly lands in the B section.

    The only difference this time around is that it’s more on the negative side. It’s no Infinity Pool C-, but it’s a far cry from Violent Night‘s B+ and M3GAN‘s B rating. While discussions are hot with the scoring system, especially after Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania‘s more wacky take on the Marvel Cinematic Universe ended with a B score, there’s an interesting discussion to have about the fidelity of this rating.

    https://twitter.com/CinemaScore/status/1629367611820589058

    Even smaller blockbusters like Plane and Missing only end up with a B or B+ while we’ve rarely seen films get an A+ rating. Puss in Boots: The Last Wish has some astounding legs on par with Top Gun: Maverick in some respects but only has an A ranking. Even Avatar: The Way of Water is playing like an A+ feature with just an A ranking.

    Not every film that is critically panned also gets the same reaction from audiences, as Jesus Revolution stands at a proud A+, but the faith-based film has a very different core audience than the 56% Rotten Tomatoes rating from critics would make you think, as it has a 99% Audience Score. Always curious to wonder

    Source: CinemaScore, Twitter

  • ‘Ant-Man 3’ Joins ‘Eternals’ With Lowest MCU CinemaScore

    ‘Ant-Man 3’ Joins ‘Eternals’ With Lowest MCU CinemaScore

    There’s been quite a discourse online about the quality of the recent Marvel movies. The critical reception of Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania has reawakened discussion points that have been around since all the way back in Phase 2, as the franchise continues to exist in a cycle of quality discussions. Still, even with a mixed critical reception with 48% on Rotten Tomatoes, the Audience Score is quite a bit more positive with 84% of audiences seemingly enjoying the film.

    Still, the CinemaScore is a classic way to see where the film’s overall word-of-mouth might land and it seems that audiences are also mostly mixed with the very frontloaded scoring. The film has now been the second Marvel Cinematic Universe film to receive a B CinemaScore. Audiences are seemingly a bit mixed on the film but it’s interesting that the second high sci-fi attempt by Marvel Studios ends up with a similar rating.

    https://twitter.com/CinemaScore/status/1626871462463262720

    One thing often overlooked is that the CinemaScore does not mean people hate the film, they just simply thought it was okay; a general sentiment you see online. There’s also always a chance that certain elements in the film just don’t jive with audiences. Horror films generally don’t do better than a B or B+ due to the elements included in the film that define the genre. Not every blockbuster film pulls in an A ranking like the recent Plane also landed at a B+.

    It’s just unusual for Marvel to have this many B ratings throughout the last two years but also not a complete defining trait of the franchise. They’ve been more experimental and that is reflected by these films not always being “crowd pleasers across the board.” The big thing here is if the film will have legs moving forward though even 2022’s B+ films did manage to pull in quite a box office over its run. We’ll have to see though if this B scoring will slowly come to an end as Marvel Studios reshuffles.

    Source: Rotten Tomatoes, Twitter