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's second leading role came in this 1992 musical from Kenny Ortega and Disney, a notorious box office flop about striking newsboys in New York in 1899. The film later developed a bit of a cult following—enough so that it was adapted for the stage in 2011 in a Tony-winning production. The movie's failure wasn't Bale's fault; USA Today critic Mike Clark praised his "engaging turn."
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