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).
Launching a streak of three poorly reviewed films for Bale, this 2001 adaptation of the best-selling WWII novel by Louis de Bernières came from the usually solid John Madden, whose previous film had been the Oscar-winning Shakespeare in Love. The box office flop reunited Bale (who plays neither Corelli nor the mandolin but instead is "miscast" as "an illiterate Greek peasant," according to Newsweek's David Ansen) with his All the Little Animals co-star John Hurt, though both are second fiddle to Nicolas Cage and Penélope Cruz.
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