20 Most Critically Adored Comic Book Movies

18. Iron Man

Heath Ledger Joker
Marvel Studios

Rating: 93%

Robert Downey Junior’s performance alone could warrant the movie’s place here, but the fact that the entire MCU has exploded out of this film means that it deserves its accolades.

Despite Tom Cruise being attached to the adaptation for a long time, Downey Jnr was perfectly cast, drawing on his own experiences to add textures to the character that cynics might have thought impossible of the genre.

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