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).
You'd be forgiven for thinking that this one would wind up at #1. Arguably the best comic book movie ever made that doesn't have the word "Panther" in its title, the second of three Batman films pairing director Christopher Nolan and star Christian Bale is Bale's highest-grossing film to date in North America (though its sequel eked out a few more dollars worldwide). But here the star is upstaged by the late Heath Ledger, whose indelible performance as the Joker earned him a posthumous best supporting actor Oscar.
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