Steven Soderbergh‘s Black Bag made the vast majority of critics critics flutter with joy…RT 97% approval!…Metaçritic 85! HE, however, was less enthused, partly due to an inability to hear roughly half of the dialogue, which was partly augmented by a combination of shitty mixing and gloopy British accents.

I thought I was all alone until discovering that Joe and Jane CinemaScore have given Soderbergh’s film a B. If you know anything about CinemaScore ratings, an A-minus means “good with a couple of problems,” a B-plus means “decent…not too bad” and a B means “meh, not so much.”

In sum, I do not live in an elite ivory tower and I don’t fool around. There’s a lot I despise about mass taste in movies, but at the end of the day “I am a river to my people”**.

On top of which RT popcorn-munchers have given it a not-so-hot 75% rating.

** This line has been stolen from Anthony Quinn‘s Auda Abu Tayi. More precisely from screenwriter Robert Bolt.