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).
Playing an American living in Nanking during the Japanese invasion in 1937, Bale is the token Western star in this mostly Mandarin-language war drama from Chinese director Zhang Yimou (Hero, House of Flying Daggers). Critics found it uneven at best—most were disappointed—though few faulted Bale, who delivered a solid performance in what seemed to many reviewers to be an unnecessary role.
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