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).
While far from Bale's best film, this 2004 thriller from Brad Anderson features one the actor's more memorable roles. He plays Trevor Reznik, a man troubled by psychological issues and a profound insomnia that has left his body emaciated. That skeletal version of Bale you seen on screen is no Hollywood trickery: The actor lost over 60 pounds for the role by depriving himself of almost all food for a period of months.
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