Matt Smith's movies and TV roles ranked by critics

Rotten Tomatoes score: 14%

Summary: In this 2018 thriller, Matt Smith leads a team of last survivors on the hunt for a cure for a supervirus that has turned humans into super zombie-like killers. Smith's character is the only one to be able to communicate with the infected and uses his ability to find patient zero.

Critics, such as Geoff Berkshire, said Smith and Natalie Dormer were the main standouts of the movie.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 15%

Summary: "Morbius" is Smith's latest film and his first superhero movie.

In the movie, Michael Morbius (Jared Leto) tries to find a cure for his disease but instead turns himself into a vampire. Smith joins the Sony "Spider-Man" villain universe as Milo Morbius, the surrogate brother of Michael and the villain of the movie.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 26%

Summary: Smith starred in the fifth installment of the "Terminator" franchise as the main villain Skynet, an AI that tries to wipe out humans in the future. In the sci-fi movie, Kyle Reese (Jai Courteney) is sent to the past to protect the mother of human resistance leader John Connor.

Instead, he ends up in an alternate timeline and has to work with John's mother (Emilia Clarke) and a good Terminator robot (Arnold Schwarzenegger) to stop Skynet from being created.

Critics thought the plot was too convoluted and it lacked the quality of previous films in the franchise.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 30%

Summary: "Lost River" was Ryan Gosling's directorial debut and starred Smith, Eva Mendes, Saoirse Ronan, and Ben Mendelsohn. The movie follows a single mother (Christina Hendricks) and her two children as they try to survive a crumbling neighborhood in Detroit.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 31%

Summary: In 2018, Smith starred in a biopic about American photographer Robert Mapplethorpe, whose work sparked debates about obscene artwork due to its explicit nature.

Marissa De La Cerda shared many critics' sentiments about the film when she wrote in the Chicago Reader that the movie was a "formulaic biopic that refuses to scratch beneath the surface."

Rotten Tomatoes score: 35%

Summary: In this sci-fi drama, a woman (Eva Green) clones her lover (Matt Smith) after he dies and gives birth to him. The woman, Rebecca, raises the clone as though he were her own son, but the relationship becomes tense when he grows up.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 46%

Summary: Matt Smith has a role in the Zombie-horror parody of Jane Austen's famous novel "Pride and Prejudice." Instead of Elizabeth Bennet (Lily James) and Mr Darcy (Sam Riley) dueling against each other with witty humor, they fight side-by-side against 19th-century zombies in the English countryside.

Smith plays Mr. Collins, the heir to the Bennet estate who gets rejected by Elizabeth. The movie received mixed reviews with The Australian critic Stephen Romei saying that Austen herself would approve.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 59%

Summary: Many actors have portrayed the cult leader Charles Manson in movies. Smith's opportunity came in the 2018 drama "Charlie Says," which portrayed the Manson family cult from the point of view of three women who killed for him, Leslie Van Houten, Patricia Krenwinkel, and Susan Atkins.

Los Angeles Times critic Katie Walsh wrote of the movie: "A fascinating and feminist exploration of Manson's first victims: the girls themselves."

Rotten Tomatoes score: 66%

Summary: "The Forgiven," based on a book of the same name, explores the reverberations of a random accident in Morocco. This accident affects both the local Muslim community and Western party guests in a grand villa, including Richard Galloway (Smith) the rich party host.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 76%

Summary: Edgar Wright's psychological thriller follows an aspiring fashion designer, Eloise (Thomasin McKenzie), who accidentally travels back to the 1960s in her dreams. There she is inspired by a wannabe singer Sandie (Anya Taylor-Joy) but the dreams soon take a dark turn.

Critics praised Wright for creating an authentic '60s atmosphere but many felt the ending was incomplete.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 82%

Summary: "Official Secrets" is a drama based on whistleblower Katharine Gun (played by Kiera Knightley), who exposed an illegal spying operation by the American and British intelligence services in the lead-up to the Iraq War.

Smith plays The Observer journalist Martin Bright who publishes the leaked memo given out by Gun.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 90%

Summary: Netflix's "The Crown," based on an award-winning play "The Audience," chronicles the life of Queen Elizabeth II, the current queen of England. Across the seasons, different actors play the royal family in different time periods.

Smith played Prince Philip, the Queen's late husband, in the first two seasons of the show.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 90%

Summary: Smith's most memorable role is as the Doctor in the long-running BBC sci-fi series "Doctor Who." The show follows an eccentric Time Lord and his human companions as they travel through space and time to explore distant civilizations and save the universe. In the fifth season, Smith took over as the Doctor from David Tenant.

Rotten Tomatoes score: 100%

Summary: Smith also appeared in Remi Weekes' film debut "His House." Sope Dirisu and Wumni Mosaku play a refugee couple from South Sudan who struggles to adjust to their new life in an English town due to a malevolent presence there. Smith plays Mark, the couple's caseworker that tries to help them find accommodation and assimilate into England.

Critics praised the merging of the film's political themes and its horror.