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Every MCU Movie Ranked From Worst to Best (According to CinemaScore)

From Iron Man to Captain America: Brave New World, here’s all 35 Marvel Cinematic Universe movies ranked in order from worst to best (based on CinemaScore grades and audience scores).

By Cameron Bonomolo

February 18, 2025, 8:00am

Captain America: Brave New World flew into turbulence with a B- grade on CinemaScore, the lowest grade ever for the 35-movie Marvel Cinematic Universe. The Anthony Mackie-fronted Marvel Studios movie soared to No. 1 at the box office with a $100 million opening stateside over the four-day Presidents Day holiday and another $92 million overseas (for a global cume of $192 million), the fourth-best for the weekend domestically behind 2018’s Black Panther ($242 million), 2016’s Deadpool ($152 million), and 2023’s Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania ($120 million).

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That’s despite earning a CinemaScore grade on par with lesser-liked Marvel adaptations like 2003’s Hulk and 2008’s Punisher: War Zone (the lowest-grossing Marvel movie ever), and the third-worst Rotten Tomatoes score for the MCU (at 50% “rotten,” it’s above only Eternals‘ 47% and Quantumania‘s 46%). Its verified audience score (the Popcornmeter) is 80%, on the lower end for Marvel Studios and within range of Quantumania (81%) but on par with The Marvels (80%).

Other comic book movies to receive a B- grade from audiences include Howard the Duck (1986), Hulk (2003), Hellboy (2004), Punisher: War Zone (2008), Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014), X-Men: Dark Phoenix (2019), The Crow (2024), and Venom: The Last Dance (2024). Captain America: Brave New World‘s CinemaScore is also lower than the oft-reviled Steel (1997), Daredevil (2003), Elektra (2005), Green Lantern (2011), Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016), and The Flash (2023), all of which received a B grade.

With that in mind, here’s every MCU movie ranked by CinemaScore grade from worst (B-) to best (A+). (Films with the same grade will be ranked by audience scores/Popcornmeter from worst to best.)