This Is Christian Bale’s Best Movie

By Douglas A. McIntyre Published May 17, 7:55AM EDT

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Oftentimes, even actors with the longest careers in Hollywood are forever known for the one iconic role they played. Christian Bale, however, is perhaps one of the few who don’t fit in such a category because he played more than one emblematic role. Can you imagine another American psycho or a more sensitive and intelligent portrayal of Bruce Wayne?

Based on Rotten Tomatoes movie ratings, 24/7 Tempo picked the best movie starring Christian Bale. To pick the best, we ranked the films based on their Rotten Tomatoes audience score. Foreign movies in which Bale starred were excluded due to missing data.

The British actor has become one of the most sought-after actors in Hollywood over the past two decades. Many people may forget that he actually started as a child actor, and he is a rare example of one becoming a strong leading man.

Bale’s first appearance in a major feature film was in 1987, when he was 13 years old. In Steven Spielberg’s “Empire of the Sun,” he played a boy separated from his parents and taken to a confinement camp after the Japanese invasion of Shanghai in 1941.
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Over the years, Bale has become known for his work ethic and the intensity with which he prepares for and plays his characters, dedicating himself so much that he even gained and lost a lot of weight for various roles.

Bale has been nominated for an Oscar four times, twice in the leading actor category and twice as a supporting actor. His sole win so far was in 2011 for playing a troubled boxing trainer for his half-brother in “The Fighter.”

Whether it’s a superhero flick or a biography drama, Bale has starred in some of Hollywood’s top-grossing films.

Christian Bale’s best movie is “Ford v Ferrari,” released in 2019. Here are some additional details:

Rotten Tomatoes audience score: 98%
Tomatometer: 92%
Fellow leads: Matt Damon, Jon Bernthal
Director: James Mangold
Domestic box office: $117,600,000

Click here to see all the best movies starring Christian Bale, according to critics.
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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.