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 directorial debut for Training Day screenwriter David Ayers (who would eventually go on to direct Suicide Squad, among other titles), this 2005 crime drama stars Bale as an intense Army veteran suffering from PTSD who turns to crime after failing to land jobs with the LAPD and federal government. New York Times critic Stephen Holden called it a "spectacular technical performance" that "somehow lacks an inner core," though The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw admired Bale's "formidable screen presence."
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