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 Scott Cooper followed his well-received debut Crazy Heart with this 2013 thriller about two brothers (Bale and Casey Affleck) who have trouble readjusting to civilian life after serving in the Iraq War. (On the surface, it's a vaguely similar setup to Bale's earlier film Harsh Times.) When Affleck's Rodney disappears after falling in with the wrong crowd, Bale's Russell must track him down. Reviews weren't bad (and a handful of reviewers really loved it), but the film was a box office dud, and studio Relativity Media was sued for defamation by the Ramapough Lunaape Nation for the film's negative portrayal of their tribe.
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