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).
Director Terrence Malick reunited with his New World star Bale for this 2015 experiment in dreamlike, episodic storytelling that finds Bale playing a lonely screenwriter in Los Angeles. Cups features a strong ensemble cast that also includes Cate Blanchett, Antonio Banderas, Natalie Portman and multiple figures from the comedy world (Nick Kroll, Thomas Lennon, and even Dan Harmon), but critics were mixed on the result, with many reviewers liking aspects of the film but not the entire thing.
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