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 final film in Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy, this 2012 release is the highest-grossing title (worldwide) in Bale's filmography, though reviews weren't quite as strong as they were for its predecessor. (One reason: Tom Hardy's Bane isn't quite as memorable a villain as Heath Ledger's Joker.) Bale has stated publicly that he will not play Batman again, and in recent years the role has fallen to Ben Affleck and Robert Pattinson (who will take over with 2021's The Batman).
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