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).
Bale's only appearance in a Ridley Scott-directed film came in this big-budget 2014 dud, a loose retelling of the Exodus story from the Bible. The actor plays Moses in a cast that also includes Joel Edgerton, Ben Mendelsohn, Aaron Paul, John Turturro, Ben Kingsley, and Sigourney Weaver. And if you think that sounds like far too many white faces for a Bible story, then you have stumbled across one of the major criticisms of the film upon its release. Bale himself also drew some negative reviews, with The Philadelphia Inquirer's Steven Rea noting the star's inconsistent accent and St. Louis Post-Dispatch critic Joe Williams calling out what "might be the most indifferent performance of Bale's career."
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