IRONHEART Is Now Officially Certified Fresh On Rotten Tomatoes

Things weren't always looking so hot for Ironheart on Rotten Tomatoes, but Marvel's latest Disney+ series is now officially "certified fresh" on the popular review aggregator...

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By MarkCassidy - Jun 30, 2025 03:06 PM EST

Filed Under: Ironheart

The full review embargo for Ironheart lifted just as the show hit Disney+ with its three-episode premiere last week, and things weren't looking so great for Marvel Studios' latest MCU-set series initially.

Though it never seemed to be in danger of being hit with the dreaded green splat on Rotten Tomatoes, Ironheart did start out at 68%, and was hovering around 71% for the next fee days. Quite a few new verdicts were added over the weekend, however, and Riri Williams' first solo outing is now officially "certified fresh" at 86% based on 75 reviews.

Fans have not been quite so positive about the show, but it's worth keeping in mind that critics have seen all six episodes (the final three arrive tomorrow).

You can check out a recap of the first three episodes at the link below.

Armor can protect you, but it’s your people who lift you up.

Don’t miss the final 3 episodes of Marvel Television’s #Ironheart coming July 1 to @DisneyPlus. Catch up with the first 3 episodes, streaming now. pic.twitter.com/3dhzUdjHrP
— Marvel Studios (@MarvelStudios) June 28, 2025

#Ironheart is Certified Fresh at 86% on the Tomatometer, with 75 reviews:https://t.co/AlRHLRdRzE pic.twitter.com/W5Fjpss9Gb
— Rotten Tomatoes (@RottenTomatoes) June 30, 2025

I've seen all six episodes of #Ironheart, and it's not good. It becomes obvious very quickly why Marvel decided to dump this on D+ 3 eps at a time. Can't fault the cast, but none of them are given much to work with. Some of the action scenes are passable and the finale is by far… pic.twitter.com/UxTD7SvDCu
— Mark Cassidy (@RorMachine) June 24, 2025

"After being expelled from MIT and stripped of her tech, teen genius Riri Williams returns to Chicago. A chance encounter leads her into the orbit of a dangerous crew, and when she uses a brain-mapping device to repair her broken suit, she accidentally brings back a hologram AI of her dead best friend."

Dominique Thorne's Riri Williams made her MCU debut in Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and this series takes places after the events of the sequel, as Riri returns to her hometown of Chicago and sets her mind to building a state-of-the-art iron suit.

"Set after the events of “Black Panther: Wakanda Forever,” “Ironheart” pits technology against magic when Riri—determined to make her mark on the world—returns to her hometown of Chicago. Her unique take on building iron suits is brilliant, but in pursuit of her ambitions, she finds herself wrapped up with the mysterious yet charming Parker Robbins aka 'The Hood' (Anthony Ramos)."

The series also stars Lyric Ross, Alden Ehrenreich, Regan Aliyah, Manny Montana, Matthew Elam and Anji White. Chinaka Hodge is head writer; episodes are directed by Sam Bailey and Angela Barnes. Executive producers include Kevin Feige, Louis D’Esposito, Brad Winderbaum, Zoie Nagelhout, Chinaka Hodge, Ryan Coogler, Sev Ohanian and Zinzi Coogler. Music is by Dara Taylor.

Produced in association with Proximity Media, Ironheart launched on Disney+ on June 24, 2025.

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narrow290 - 6/30/2025, 3:36 PM

mmm..

harryba11zack - 6/30/2025, 3:36 PM

rebellion - 6/30/2025, 3:51 PM

@harryba11zack - the word 'iconic' has lost all meaning. its thrown around like crazy by gen z-ers who think they did something special by wearing a new shirt/makeup or simply existing.

AllsNotGood - 6/30/2025, 4:37 PM

@rebellion - read up the meaning of iconic it fits her to a T

OrgasmicPotatoe - 6/30/2025, 5:48 PM

@AllsNotGood - Dude, we all know iconic means you can make it into an icon on your desktop, don't pretend like you're smarter than us !

TheNewYorker - 6/30/2025, 6:30 PM

Shoutout to all the little black girls who’ll be inspired by this, and one day make their own super suit.

narrow290 - 6/30/2025, 3:37 PM

Am I wrong in thinking that it should have a lot more than 74 reviews?

Apophis71 - 6/30/2025, 3:46 PM

@narrow290 - TV shows tend to be a lot slower to get critic reviews and never reach anywhere near as many as most films, simply way too much TV/streaming content to get high totals fast and less incentives for critics to watch when there isn't the Box office aspect and red carpets (normaly) to it all.

MrDandy - 6/30/2025, 3:52 PM

@narrow290 - no, you are not. Marvel really put this out under the radar. Agatha All Along got over 200 reviews and that was considered a relatively low budget marvel show.

Apophis71 - 6/30/2025, 4:02 PM

@MrDandy - Certainly didn't seem to have been as much advertising etc for this compared to Agatha, make of that whatever anyone will, but that would also tend to reduce the rate critics checked it out.

MrDandy - 6/30/2025, 5:16 PM

@Apophis71 - could also be a lot of reviewers are choosing to wait one additional week to review the full series.

CorndogBurglar - 6/30/2025, 5:18 PM

@narrow290 - Its got 70 from critics and 19 from audience.

I feel like these are extremely low numbers, although I'm not someone that ever really looks at RT. Maybe its normal? I dont know. Less than 100 total reviews seems really low.

Sounds like no one is really watching this.

Apophis71 - 6/30/2025, 6:53 PM

@CorndogBurglar - Put it this way, The Bear that has been criticaly acclaimed and now on season four has 64 critic reviews this season, Squid Game in it's third has 55, Nautilus that like Ironheart is new this year only has 10 and THAT was released in January.

In terms of audience, again considered the 'popular' Squid Game and The Bear have 1,000+ and 250+ reviews for the newest season Ironheart if anything is FAR higher than normal for a TV show in it's first week with 2,500+ already as many as Andor which has been out for two months and already finished it's last season in May.

SOME shows have more, most have less and inconsistant which but main thing being the reviews tend to be later and slow to roll in for TV compared to for big screen films and almost always far lower total numbers.

Wahhvacado - 6/30/2025, 6:58 PM

@Apophis71 - I've always appreciated how well thought out your replies are. Appreciate your contributions to this site

CorndogBurglar - 6/30/2025, 6:59 PM

@Apophis71 - Ironheart doesnt have 2,500 Rotten Tomatoes reviews. What do you mean?

Apophis71 - 6/30/2025, 7:05 PM

@CorndogBurglar - The front page score states 2,500+ which is what that stat will be based on, even if not all are listed when you go to read them which isn't unussual IF there has been a lot of obvious spamming as those will come with a fair amount of, erm, unsavoury language thus they put up a read and approve before publishing thing in place for the mods rather than the normal reactionary take down after posted any unsavoury comments.

Vigor - 6/30/2025, 7:39 PM

@Wahhvacado - hes kind of our resident comicbook scholar

ModHaterSLADE - 6/30/2025, 3:39 PM

I mean it's just OK so far, but has the potential to be better if they can stick the landing with the supernatural elements they've been teasing.

Apophis71 - 6/30/2025, 3:42 PM

Interesting but it always was that sort of show many will either love or hate but if most are saying it is at least average to good that is as best as you'd likely expect coming out from the period where it was quantity over quality.

For what it's worth I found episode three good, not great, first couple not bad but slow so for the first half I'd hover around an overal 6 or 7 out of 10. The remaining three will determine, for me, if that average goes down or up, if they stick the landing an 8/10 doesn't sound unachievable where it left off even if many still REALY don't like the show as different strokes for different folks and all that jazz.

URCOMMENTSUCKS - 6/30/2025, 3:43 PM

Stunning. Brave.

Clintthahamster - 6/30/2025, 4:25 PM

@URCOMMENTSUCKS - Your comment sµcks.

URCOMMENTSUCKS - 6/30/2025, 5:17 PM

@Clintthahamster - shut up.

LiquidSwords - 6/30/2025, 3:47 PM

Certified fresh dog crap. You’d have to be paid to give this a good rating. It’s getting panned everywhere else.

rebellion - 6/30/2025, 3:47 PM

the acting is horrible, especially 'the gang'. ok, the show wanted to tick diversity boxes, fine. but get someone who can act ffs. i will say that the girl playing ai assistant is talented, shes given crap material (like everyone else) and somehow manages to stand out and be entertaining.

narrow290 - 6/30/2025, 3:51 PM

@rebellion - True! the Gang is a joke! a bad one so is the action.

Deckacards - 6/30/2025, 3:54 PM

@rebellion - Completely agree with this. Her best friend/AI is the best actor on the show. I thought it was 'meh' overall...just okay. I could enjoy enough parts of it that I'll watch the second half, but I have hopes it'll be better than the first. But this is a great point - the acting, overall, is bad, and the worst is the lead herself. And her friend/AI is the best. Hopefully we get better in the conclusion.

AllsNotGood - 6/30/2025, 4:36 PM

@rebellion - at this point Ezekiel Stane is the diversity hire

SuperiorHeckler - 6/30/2025, 3:49 PM

Does the FRESH rating officially make her iconic? 🤔

HashTagSwagg - 6/30/2025, 3:51 PM

MyCoolYoung - 6/30/2025, 3:51 PM

Tomorrow we eat. LFG

TyrantBossMedia - 6/30/2025, 3:53 PM

Certified Fresh = We are afraid to criticize this terrible show because we will be called racist and/or sexist.

It's called Disney Critical Armor.

The show is terrible. Disjointed, poorly written, the acting is awful and Ri Ri Williams is basically a villain who kills a man at the end of season 3.

MrDandy - 6/30/2025, 3:54 PM

@TyrantBossMedia - three seasons already!! What did I miss??

TyrantBossMedia - 6/30/2025, 3:56 PM

@MrDandy - Typos happen.

But the shows are so painfully long and boring....they may as well be seasons.

Deal with it.

KaptainKhaos - 6/30/2025, 5:24 PM

@TyrantBossMedia - The Boss is back!!

Gabimaru - 6/30/2025, 6:48 PM

@TyrantBossMedia - disney use the poc just to shield their wack a** writing

AllsGood - 6/30/2025, 3:59 PM

IRONHEART Is Now Officially Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. Well Deserved :)

Matador - 6/30/2025, 4:17 PM

@AllsGood - Exactly I did not expect that cameo!

So iconic.

ImNotaBot - 6/30/2025, 4:01 PM

The explanation of why her suit does not need an arc reactor is one of the dumbest think i seen in the MCU. Now EVERYBODY in the MCU can have an Iron Man suit, just put some fans and a solar panel and you’re good.

AllsGood - 6/30/2025, 4:09 PM

@ImNotaBot - Don't have the Arc Reactor Technolgy and Tony Stark is dead. Had to come with own Resorces.

Like Iron-Man 2 movie.

ImNotaBot - 6/30/2025, 4:59 PM

@AllsGood - An Iron Man suit needs and arc reactor that fuel the suit with almost infinite renewable energy.

Riri suit needs 2 fans and a solar panel, really? This is the best explanations that they can come up with? In IM2 Whiplash had an reactor because his father helped Howard with the original arc reactor project and no one in the MCU could recreate the project in order to make another Iron Man suit. Now all of this does not matter bc all you need is two fans and a solar panel to have your own IM suit 🤡

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IRONHEART Is Now Officially Certified Fresh On Rotten Tomatoes

Things weren't always looking so hot for Ironheart on Rotten Tomatoes, but Marvel's latest Disney+ series is now officially "certified fresh" on the popular review aggregator...

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