As the weekend and weeks ahead go on and we see word of mouth and box office returns, we’ll get an even better sense of how people feel about Joker.
Perhaps opening night audiences weren’t as caught up in the controversy nor interested in picking a side, they simply saw the movie and generally liked it.
There are a lot of ways to measure what general audiences think of a movie and none of them are perfect but the CinemaScore gives us our best idea yet of how Joker is being received.