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).
Bale reunited with his 3:10 to Yuma director James Mangold for his 2019 film about the 1966 "24 Hours of Le Mans" endurance automobile race. He plays British driver Ken Miles, who teams with an American automotive designer (Matt Damon) to represent the underdog Ford Motor Company in the race as they attempt to take down the favored Ferrari team. Critics have been singling Bale out for praise, calling his performance "dynamic," "magnetic," and "entertaining." Writes Anthony Lane in The New Yorker, "Bale is a cussed and calculating actor, yet he’s never been more likable than he is here."
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