Los Angeles: "Black Panther" has raced past "The Dark Knight" and "Iron Man" to earn the best aggregated score on Rotten Tomatoes of any live-action superhero film.

The Ryan Coogler-directed film's score is currently at 97 per cent.

Christopher Nolan's "The Dark Knight" and Jon Favreau's "Iron Man" are tied at 94 per cent.

The film, starring Chadwick Boseman as T'Challa/Black Panther, Lupita Nyong'o, Michael B Jordon, Daniel Kaluuya, Letitia Wright, Winston Duke, Angela Basset, Forest Whitaker, Andy Serkis and Martin Freeman, is already a winner at the box office.  PTI