Everything is owed to Iron Man, a film that launched a moment and set a standard that hasn’t always been reached.

| Feb 27, 2024

An exceptionally well-made debut for Marvel Studios. Fun, engaging and bolstered by a tour-de-force lead turn by Robert Downey Jr.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 18, 2023

When all is said and done, this is, without a doubt, the Robert Downey Jr. show from start to finish.

| Jun 24, 2021

One of the best they've ever made

| Mar 26, 2021

A fun two-hours thanks to a top cast lead by a charismatic Robert Downey Jr. Most of the effects still hold up and the action scenes are still exciting.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Feb 24, 2021

If you don't like Iron Man, then you should stop going to movies.

| Original Score: 3.5/4.0 | Sep 12, 2020

Marvel's questions of intervention are locked within an invisible framework, one that allows for lip-service to questioning power, yet one that implicitly comes down on the side of power itself, forever protecting the American status quo.

| Dec 15, 2019

This is Downey at the top of his game, delivering a performance full of humor and self-awareness.

| Original Score: B+ | Oct 29, 2019

Iron Man might feature a mesmerizing performance by Robert Downey Jr. and kicked off the Marvel Cinematic Universe, but that doesn't entirely save it from a weak villain or falling apart by the third act.

| Original Score: 8/10 | May 15, 2019

Iron Man may just be one adventure but the film is a lot more than that because it has the main responsibility of launching an entire Marvel Cinematic Universe.

| Original Score: 5/5 | Apr 17, 2019

Few of the films in the (MCU) are as accessible as this one, and while you may not love it in your top-ten films of all-time, you can't beat the good time this film brings.

| Original Score: 8.25/10 | Dec 8, 2018

Robert Downey Jr. is the clown prince of stars, a role he was born to play after allowing us to watch his candid Hollywood revels for years and years and years.

| Nov 2, 2018

Iron Man is of such caliber that it makes the other films from the Marvel canon seem lesser by comparison.

| Original Score: A | Nov 2, 2018

Still, if the film is ultimately disappointing it is in part because it begins so well, and there is a lot to enjoy before the over-the-top final act.

| Oct 7, 2018

The movie that proved it's possible to make GOOD superhero movies, ushering in the MCU and teaching DC absolutely nothing.

| Aug 29, 2018

It's perhaps the most thrilling tribute to good old American ingenuity the movies have given us in ages.

| Aug 26, 2018

I like Downey Jr, usually, with his dark wounded eyes, but here his performance veers between going though the motions and a look which seems to say, "Hey, what film am I doing again?"

| Aug 23, 2018

It's faithful to the comic origins without being slavish, draws ideas from the entire run of the series, and stirs a self-aware sense of humor through the action while still taking the enterprise seriously.

| Jan 13, 2017

His well-honed acting chops aside, a big reason the casting of Downey as Stark works so darn well is that incorrigible streak, which he somehow always has been able to balance with an irrepressible likability and which he uses to full effect here.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 15, 2015

Injecting the brilliantly bright, quick, and clever life force that is Robert Downey Jr. into the comic-book superhero realm is a masterstroke, a kick in the head to the tired franchises of the genre.

| Original Score: A | Jun 15, 2015