CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD Receives MCU's Lowest-Ever CinemaScore; Still Eyeing A $90 Million Opening

Captain America: Brave New World's CinemaScore has been revealed and it's set an unfortunate Marvel Cinematic Universe record with the lowest-ever score for the franchise. We also have a box office update.

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By JoshWilding - Feb 15, 2025 03:02 AM EST

Filed Under: Captain America: Brave New World

The review embargo for Captain America: Brave New World lifted earlier this week and, as of now, the latest Marvel Studios movie sits at 50% on Rotten Tomatoes based on 234 reviews.

It's only the MCU's third "Rotten" movie and, if it's any consolation to the team who worked on it, still a few percentage points ahead of Eternals (47%) and Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania (46%).

Moviegoers and fans have started chiming in and Captain America: Brave New World's CinemaScore has been revealed. Remember, CinemaScore is a market research firm that surveys audience reactions to newly released movies.

After attending opening night screenings, moviegoers rate films on an A+ to F scale, providing insights into audience satisfaction. Widely used in the film industry, CinemaScore helps gauge the initial reception of movies and influences box office predictions based on audience feedback.

Captain America: Brave New World has been awarded a B-, the lowest-ever score for an MCU title. That's below the B given to the two "Rotten" movies mentioned above and The Marvels. A B- puts Sam Wilson's first solo adventure on par with 2003's Hulk, Dark Phoenix, and Venom: The Last Dance.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Captain America: Civil War got an A and, in 2011, Captain America: The First Avenger was graded A-. The Incredible Hulk was also given an A-.

The latest box office projections point to a $39 million Friday for Captain America: Brave New World ahead of a 4-day haul of $90+ million. Over three days, the movie looks set to earn $82 million - $84 million, so the reviews haven't hurt this one yet...that second weekend might not be good, though, especially if word-of-mouth is negative.

A new poster for Captain America: Brave New World has been released which you can check out below.

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— Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) February 14, 2025

In Captain America: Brave New World, after meeting with newly elected U.S. President Thaddeus Ross, played by Harrison Ford in his Marvel Cinematic Universe debut, Sam Wilson finds himself in the middle of an international incident. He must discover the reason behind a nefarious global plot before the true mastermind has the entire world seeing red.

The movie stars Anthony Mackie, Danny Ramirez, Shira Haas, Xosha Roquemore, Carl Lumbly, with Giancarlo Esposito, Liv Tyler, Tim Blake Nelson, and Harrison Ford. The movie is directed by Julius Onah and produced by Kevin Feige and Nate Moore. Louis D’Esposito and Charles Newirth serve as executive producers.

"Flawed but functional, Captain America: Brave New World's many problems are largely forgotten any time Anthony Mackie and Harrison Ford electrify the screen," we said in our review. "And when Red Hulk shows up, the movie reaches new heights of awesome."

Captain America: Brave New World opens in U.S. theaters on February 14, 2025.

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Gambito - 2/15/2025, 3:11 AM

Okay come no way in hell this is worse than Quantumania or SheHulk at the very least it delivered on the action

CaptainAwkward - 2/15/2025, 3:17 AM

@Gambito - Saw it last night. I knew exactly what I was letting myself in for. I enjoyed it. It’s average. Nothing more than the some of its parts. Mackie, Ford & Bradley carried the movie. I thought TF&TWS show was better but I had a good time nonetheless. She hulk is the worst thing the MCU has ever made, it’s actually painful for me to watch it. Couldn’t get past the first episode the only highlight of that monstrosity of a show was Daredevil. I’ve never watched Quantumania properly from start to finish just bits. I’m annoyed that they wasted Kang as the villain making him nothing but “a villain of the week” killing the character’s credibility. Majors was so awesome in Loki.

EskimoJ - 2/15/2025, 3:23 AM

@CaptainAwkward - If you "couldn't get past the first episode" of She-Hulk, how do you know Daredevil was the highlight of the show?

CaptainAwkward - 2/15/2025, 3:26 AM

@EskimoJ - Watched the daredevil bits on YouTube lol. When you don’t want to watch something properly you can always settle for the highlights.

MakeAmericaGrea - 2/15/2025, 4:14 AM

@Gambito -

Look, it's still a piece of shit made by scumbags for scumbags, and as revenge against good people.

POWERDUDE - 2/15/2025, 5:45 AM

@Gambito - it was UTTER turgid shite.

Blergh - 2/15/2025, 5:54 AM

@Gambito - I still enjoyed Quantumania

ObserverIO - 2/15/2025, 6:09 AM

@Gambito - Saw it yesterday (because I'm a fool I still pay money for bad Marvel movies).

I'd say it's just below mid. 4/10 Same as The Marvels.
Love and Thunder I would say is a 3/10 and Quantumania is maybe a 3.5/10.

So I'd say it's marginally better than Quantumania. But not by much.
I would probably give most of these an even lower score, but they're saved by pretty decent performances from legendary actors like Michelle Pfieffer, Harrison Ford and Christian Bale.

ObserverIO - 2/15/2025, 6:19 AM

Of course I did just watch it last night and there was a lot of chocolate involved, so I might revise my opinion of the movie when the dust settles and I realise that it's actually a new low for the MCU.

DaddieIshUse - 2/15/2025, 6:39 AM

@MakeAmericaGrea - Bro this movie was FIRE 🔥 Best movie of the year. Y'all so miserable-lonely u ain't got nothing better to do than to go online and troll trash and ruin shii... obviously you don't like marvel or sups movies. Don't watch them, go back to watching "pretty women" & "queen eye for the straight guy."

Feralwookiee - 2/15/2025, 6:50 AM

@DaddieIshUse - I could barely understand this pseudo English, but the Pretty Woman comment made me laugh! 🤪

ObserverIO - 2/15/2025, 7:35 AM

@Feralwookiee - I'm still trying to read the username. DaddielshUse?!

IAmAHoot - 2/15/2025, 9:40 AM

@MakeAmericaGrea - Get a life, homie. The show was far from great, but there was plenty to enjoy.
As if scumbags have stopped you from enjoying anything else...

vectorsigma - 2/15/2025, 3:16 AM

Stop hating this movie.

I hate the mcu now and i was waiting for all of your hate during d&w but that didnt come because reynolds gave you your dose of cameos and noatalgia.

This movie has flaws but it is better than that and doesnt deserve the hate it is getting

CaptainAwkward - 2/15/2025, 3:23 AM

@vectorsigma - Exactly. It wasn’t a bad movie. I liked it for what it is. Any issues I have with it are irrelevant because it’s just a filler movie. Something to nibble on before we get to the better stuff, further down the line. It’s not that deep. Still better than the Flash, Black Adam, She-Hulk, Antman 2, Captain marvel, Venom 2, Madame Webb, Shazam 2, etc.

Usernametaken - 2/15/2025, 3:29 AM

@vectorsigma - For most people "not bad" is not worth 2hours of our life and certainly not our hard earned money to see it in theaters.

People are disappointed because they wanted the movie to be good or even great. That's what everybody should hope for.

Scorsese was kind of right, this is not cinema, this is just content.

MakeAmericaGrea - 2/15/2025, 4:16 AM

@vectorsigma -

As revenge against good people completely over all the Marxist bullshit, it deserves more than the hate it's getting.

Keep boycotting the MCU until Disney does right by us and makes good movies again.

IAmAHoot - 2/15/2025, 5:50 AM

@Usernametaken - And yet, in the age of countless movie reactions, the movies that people complain about in the MCU during release fare very often far better with people watching it years on down the line with no qualms at all. Not saying you’re wrong, not rating the movie either way, but you’re inherently viewing it with a current bias. How many people can you go and watch view Iron Man 2 right now for the first time and say it was amazing, yet upon release it got largely lambasted by the fans? All I see is spoiled people. People can say it’s a bad movie - it may well be one - but the plentiful bunch on this site are the types to say an MCU movie is the worst movie ever made.

vectorsigma - 2/15/2025, 6:04 AM

@Usernametaken - all im saying is the "not bad" is more worth the time and money than a "very bad with cameos and noatalgia". But to each their own i guess

Usernametaken - 2/15/2025, 6:06 AM

@IAmAHoot - @IAmAHoot - Anyone who thinks any marvel movies is "the worst movie ever made" haven't watched a lot of movies and have been spoiled by only watching great movies.

I actually liked Iron Man 2 when it came out, took me years to learn that the movie was rushed into production and would have been better if they took one more year for writing and pre-production.

As for people giving countless movie reactions, well, we all should be smart enough to differentiate constructive criticism and biased opinions. And frankly BNW deserves a lot of the criticism it's getting.

I hope Marvel learns from this feedback and delivers better movies in the future.

Usernametaken - 2/15/2025, 6:14 AM

@vectorsigma - I agree with you. I would rather have marvel trying to do more movies like Brave new world than Deadpool 3.

But at the end of the day, I would rather give my money to movies like Nosferatu, The Brutalist, Furiosa, Alex Garland's Civil War etc than Brave new world.

It's important to care about the quality and not just IPs. If people spends more money and time on genuinely good movies and says no to average content, then Marvel and others will care more about the quality of their output.

DaddieIshUse - 2/15/2025, 6:31 AM

@Usernametaken - working @ McDonald's is not hard work 🙄

Usernametaken - 2/15/2025, 6:48 AM

@DaddieIshUse - Thank you for your insightful input into this conversation.

I guess that to shit on people who works menial jobs, you never ever had a job like this, or never needed services from people with menial jobs.

You must be farming your own food, cook everything yourself, make your own furnitures etc right?

Remember that having a high paying job will never make you into a good and interesting human being.

Feralwookiee - 2/15/2025, 6:52 AM

@Usernametaken - You have won the internet today with this post sir. 👍

Usernametaken - 2/15/2025, 7:45 AM

@Feralwookiee - My jobs took me to be a ikea storage worker to being friends and making videos for millionaires and famous people.

I love making videos, but at some point I said [frick] you to these people because they are all egomaniacal, lonely, narcissistic asshats, that constantly needs to be reminded that they don't own the people working with or for them.

And I'd rather have a beer with a janitor than someone who will spend the evening talking to me about the rolex he's planning to buy this year or his last vacation and great famous restaurant he went too.

Also they constantly bitch about the other people who are more successful than them. Boring [foo foo]s.

IAmAHoot - 2/15/2025, 8:08 AM

@Usernametaken - Buying a movie ticket to see this spectacle... you're really exaggerating "hard earned money" like you blew a full day at work just to watch a movie that didn't even require the full two hours of work it took you to sit and watch it.
And P.S. You act like the people who made the movie didn't themselves want it to be "good or great". They weren't making a bad movie; no one involved was actively making a bad movie.

RolandD - 2/15/2025, 8:54 AM

@vectorsigma - “But it has a black actor in Steve Rogers place. Or cast be good.” Hey, you all know that Chris Evans decided he was done with this role or at least for a while. Yes, I thought he was one of the best castings in the MCU and was great as Steve Rogers. I am also willing to accept Anthony Mackie or Sam Wilson as the new Steve Rogers. This is half the reason that this movie is getting as much hate as it does. I say that because people were hating on this movie before it was even made. This weekend I will give it a shot myself and maybe it’s great, maybe it’s good or maybe it’s not but it’s not because we have changed who Captain America is. That’s my take.

RolandD - 2/15/2025, 8:56 AM

@Usernametaken - then why are you here because if you’re going by what Scorsese he said, Infinity War was also not cinema. The Winter Soldier was not cinema, etc.

bobevanz - 2/15/2025, 9:10 AM

@DaddieIshUse - alright which dipshit has a new alt account

narrow290 - 2/15/2025, 10:22 AM

@Usernametaken - I bet you didn’t even see the movie

ElBlancoChoco - 2/15/2025, 10:46 AM

@Usernametaken - Someone making fun of someone working any job is kind of an elitist d--k move. Dudes probably the type that makes life difficult for these workers and then goes home to wank off to it, with a mc nugget inserted firmly in his a--hole.

captainwalker - 2/15/2025, 11:17 AM

@MakeAmericaGrea - They get what they deserve....Hahahahahahahaha

EskimoJ - 2/15/2025, 3:21 AM

Not sure how the audience is receiving this lower than all the other MCU movies; to each their own, I suppose.

It's not some secret masterpiece or too smart of a movie to be appreciated/understood (😏), but it's not even close to the worst movie they've put out.

Saw it a second time tonight, actually enjoyed it even more (still mid to low-tier).

CaptainAwkward - 2/15/2025, 3:24 AM

@EskimoJ - I won’t see it again in theatres but I’ll definitely watch it again because I liked it. It’s sufficiently enjoyable which is good for me.

Usernametaken - 2/15/2025, 3:32 AM

@EskimoJ - "how"?

Maybe it's because the first Captain America trilogy had good/great movies and they foolishly thought that this new one will be on par quality wise.

You're all just happy that Marvel is releasing stuff as long as it is "watchable". But a lot of people sets the bar higher.

EskimoJ - 2/15/2025, 4:12 AM

@Usernametaken - Do you agree that this movie is the worst MCU movie ever released?

If not, then you're not really refuting my point despite your attempt at condescension.

MakeAmericaGrea - 2/15/2025, 4:22 AM

@EskimoJ -

Conservatives don't care that it's not the worst MCU movie.

Disney and lefties have screwed over millions of good people for far too long.

Lefties punished good people with dozens of shitty movies that did horrible damage to franchises.

Marxists, commies, socialists, and other lefties messed around and found out.

Usernametaken - 2/15/2025, 4:40 AM

@EskimoJ - You asked how, I answered. People are disappointed, they had high expectations for a Cap movie, because those expectations were set by the quality of previous movies.

So yeah, there will always be people like you saying "it's fine", "it's not the worst", "it's not good, but it's not bad", "I enjoyed it".

Good for them, but don't expect everybody to shell 15 bucks and be happy that they had an average experience when they were expecting (and Disney sold them) a movie that was a sequel to 3 of the greatest superhero movies ever made.

ObserverIO - 2/15/2025, 6:26 AM

@Usernametaken - I love your description that it's "Not cinema, just content". This movie was like a really forgettable couple of episodes of a lower quality season 2 or 3 of TF&TWS. That's not worth the price of a cinema ticket.

Usernametaken - 2/15/2025, 6:35 AM

@ObserverIO - It's all "content".

Tarantino, Spielberg, Disney, video game streamers, girls who makes Tiktok makeup tutorial, they're all content creators that are after your attention, time, money and engagement for their content.

Now some people strives to make art and quality content, and some just thinks about how much money they can make by spending this much money on producing content.

And somewhere in between you have blockbuster movies and TV shows.

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CAPTAIN AMERICA: BRAVE NEW WORLD Receives MCU's Lowest-Ever CinemaScore; Still Eyeing A $90 Million Opening

Captain America: Brave New World's CinemaScore has been revealed and it's set an unfortunate Marvel Cinematic Universe record with the lowest-ever score for the franchise. We also have a box office update.

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