Words are everything. So let’s play the semantics game for a minute. While the highest Tomatometer rating for an MCU movie goes to T’Challa and company’s debut, “Black Panther” doesn’t top the list of MCU IPs on Rotten Tomatoes’ leaderboard. That honor goes to the Disney+ show “Ms. Marvel,” which sneaks ahead of “Black Panther” with a Tomatometer score of 98% and an Audience rating of 80%.
“Black Panther” comes right after this (as of this writing). Interestingly, the film is immediately followed by two other non-movie MCU events: “Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” and “The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special.” After that, we don’t get another MCU series until the 9th and 10th-place spots, which are filled by “Hawkeye” and “WandaVision,” respectively.
For over a decade the MCU consisted of gigantic tentpole events. These included trips to the theater to watch full-length features on opening weekend. And yet, just a few years after the studios’ first Disney+ series released, half of its highest ranking projects come from the streaming side of its business. It’s an interesting fact, considering Bob Iger’s regret about Disney+ creating too much content too fast. If the focus is to scale back to improve quality, perhaps the top of the MCU’s Rotten Tomatoes rankings will be dominated by streaming content before long.
