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).
One-time Batman star Bale visited the rival Marvel Cinematic Universe for the first time in 2022 with a starring role in the sequel to Thor: Ragnarok, again directed by Taika Waititi. Bale plays villain Gorr the God Butcher opposite a returning Chris Hemsworth as the titular hero, joined by other MCU regulars including the Guardians of the Galaxy crew plus Natalie Portman's Jane Foster, Jaimie Alexander's Sif, and Tessa Thompson's Valkyrie. Critics actually seemed to like Bale's performance (even complaining about his lack of screen time) but the film as a whole is one of the lesser MCU outings.
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