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).
How forgettable is The Promise? Well, it came out just three years ago, and yet you probably have no idea it even exists. A romance set during the closing years of the Ottoman Empire (and during events leading up to the Armenian Genocide), The Promise reportedly lost $100 million despite a cast led by Bale (playing an Armenian medical student in Turkey) and Oscar Isaac. Critics liked their performances and the movie's intentions, but found director Terry George's film to be "generic" and "boring," with the romance detracting from the film's weightier issues.
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