Every Christian Bale Movie, Ranked
Updated January 2023.
With the arrival of Ford v Ferrari this week, the famously "difficult" and intense Academy Award-winning British actor Christian Bale has now appeared in (or lent his voice to) 45 feature films, dating back to his debut as a teenager in 1987.
In the gallery above, we rank most of those films from worst to best, minus 1989's Henry V (in which he barely appears) and a pair of minor European films (1987's Mio in the Land of Faraway and 1994's Royal Deceit) which never screened or received reviews in the United States. Also excluded are three animated films in which Bale provided voices (Mowgli, Howl's Moving Castle, and Pocahontas).
The troubled fourth film in the Terminator series, this 2009 entry directed by McG was at one point the worst Terminator film, though the subsequent Genisys definitively established the franchise's rock bottom. (The recent Dark Fate, while an enormous financial failure, is actually better reviewed than both films.) Bale plays John Connor, a character who has been portrayed by at least six actors (depending on how you count them) including Edward Furlong, Jason Clarke, and Thomas Dekker, though the film's real star according to critics is then-newcomer Sam Worthington.
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