The Jackie Robinson movie “42” not only won the box office with a $27 million debut this weekend, it joined some exclusive company when audiences gave it an “A+” CinemaScore.
Only 29 movies have earned that grade since the Las Vegas-based polling firm began asking moviegoers to grade the films they’d just seen back in 1999, according to CinemaScore research analyst Harold Mintz.
This year’s Oscar Best Picture winner “Argo” got one. So did “The Avengers,” “King’s Speech,” “Titanic” and “A Few Good Men” and “Toy Story 2.” They’re not all big hits: “Soul Surfer” and “Tangled” were crowd-pleasers of the highest order, too.