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Christian Bale

March 2026

  • Jessie Buckley as The Bride, with black stain round her mouth.

    The Bride! review – Jessie Buckley is electrifying as frizzy-haired, black-tongued monster’s wife

    The actor has a blast as bride to Christian Bale’s lonely creature in Maggie Gyllenhaal’s darkly comic and gleefully bizarre reimagining of the 1935 film

January 2026

  • Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood

    ‘Uncomfortably relatable’: writers on their favourite unlikable movie characters

  • Ryan Gosling in Project Hail Mary, left, and Jaafar Jackson in Michael

    Doomed lovers, high heels and The Odyssey: films to get excited about in 2026

August 2024

  • 2007, ENCHANTED<br>AMY ADAMS Character(s): Giselle Film 'ENCHANTED' (2007) Directed By KEVIN LIMA 21 November 2007 SSP60647 Allstar/DISNEY **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of DISNEY and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To DISNEY is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Ranked
    Aliens, artists and Abscam: Amy Adams’ 20 best performances – ranked!

    The six times Oscar-nominated actor, who turns 50 this month, stars in comedy horror Nightbitch releasing in December. We look back at some of her best roles

June 2024

  • Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman in American Psycho.

    The sad, stupid rise of the sigma male: how toxic masculinity took over social media

    His heroes are Patrick Bateman, John Wick, Tommy Shelby and Walter White. He follows Andrew Tate and idolises wolves. And he has quickly become a laughing stock. Welcome to the world of the sigma male

February 2024

  • ‘Well, this is it’ … Christian Bale with his wife Sibi Blazic​ at the ground-breaking ceremony for the Together California foster care centre in Palmdale, California on Wednesday.

    Christian Bale unveils plans to build 12 foster homes in California

    The Batman actor has been developing the idea since the birth of his daughter in 2005, after being ‘stunned and mad’ to learn how many children were in care in California

February 2023

  • This image released by Universal Pictures shows Zoe Kazan as Jodi Kantor, left, and Carey Mulligan as Megan Twohey in a scene from "She Said." (JoJo Whilden/Universal Pictures via AP)

    From She Said to Devotion: this season’s ignored Oscarbait movies

    While Everything Everywhere All at Once and The Banshees of Inisherin lead, the season saw other films with all the requisite ingredients fail to score

January 2023

  • Toby Jones and Gillian Anderson in The Pale Blue Eye.

    The Pale Blue Eye review – starry gothic mystery loses its way

    Despite the best efforts of Christian Bale, Gillian Anderson and co, this wintry crime yarn featuring a young Edgar Allan Poe descends into farce

December 2022

  • The Pale Blue Eye. Christian Bale as Augustus Landor in The Pale Blue Eye. Cr. Scott Garfield/Netflix © 2022

    The Pale Blue Eye review – baffled, beardy Christian Bale in gruesome murder yarn

    Set in 1830, a mildly ridiculous plot sends a haunted Bale to investigate the gothic killing of a military cadet

October 2022

  • Christian Bale, Margot Robbie and John David Washington in Amsterdam.

    Amsterdam review – don’t try to keep up

    David O Russell brings plenty of pizzazz to this 1930s mystery, but the ambitious jigsaw puzzle of a plot is almost impossible to follow
  • Composite image of Christian Bale and Julianne Moore

    Down the rabbit hole
    What links David O Russell’s crime romp Amsterdam to Gloria Steinem and Bob Dylan?

    Ahead of the shouty director’s latest film, we venture down the rabbit hole with Christian Bale, Julianne Moore and Spike Lee
  • Manageable mise-en-scene … director James Gunn and Sean Gunn shooting Guardians of the Galaxy.

    Week in geek
    Does it really matter if Marvel’s stars act in a state of utter bewilderment?

    While developments in CGI mean cast members no longer have to walk around blue-screen studios talking to tennis balls on sticks, is the acting experience as true as it should be?

September 2022

  • Christian Bale, Margot Robbie and John David Washington in Amsterdam.

    Amsterdam review – turn of the screwball in David O Russell’s starry muddle

    Christian Bale, Margot Robbie and John David Washington bring laughs to a exhaustingly wacky riff on a real-life fascist conspiracy in 1930s New York

July 2022

  • This image released by Marvel Studios shows Natalie Portman, left, and Chris Hemsworth in a scene from "Thor: Love and Thunder." (Jasin Boland/Marvel Studios-Disney via AP)

    Now you've seen it
    Thor: Love and Thunder – the ‘super-gay’ tone, female Thor and Russell Crowe – discuss with spoilers

    Are you happy about Chris Hemsworth’s god of Thunder taking a back seat to Natalie Portman’s Mighty Thor? And where in Marvel’s universe did Zeus’s godawful accent come from?
  • Natalie Portman and Chris Hemsworth in Thor: Love and Thunder

    Thor: Love and Thunder review – sentimental multimillion-dollar romp

    Chris Hemsworth’s Thor suffers an existential crisis in director Taika Waititi’s self-satisfied follow-up to Thor-Ragnarok
  • Natalie Portman, left, and Chris Hemsworth in Thor: Love and Thunder

    Thor: Love and Thunder review – Taika Waititi hammers home franchise fun

    Followup to Thor: Ragnarok repeats some of that masterwork’s tongue-in-cheek approach as Natalie Portman’s Jane Foster takes up tool-throwing duties

May 2022

  • 2018, AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR<br>JOSH BROLIN Character(s): Thanos Film 'AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR' (2018) Directed By ANTHONY RUSSO &amp; JOE RUSSO 23 April 2018 SAV85061 Allstar/MARVEL STUDIOS/DISNEY (USA 2018) / Infinity Stones **WARNING** This Photograph is for editorial use only and is the copyright of MARVEL STUDIOS/DISNEY and/or the Photographer assigned by the Film or Production Company &amp; can only be reproduced by publications in conjunction with the promotion of the above Film. A Mandatory Credit To MARVEL STUDIOS/DISNEY is required. The Photographer should also be credited when known. No commercial use can be granted without written authority from the Film Company.

    Week in geek
    Super bad: who is the greatest ever Marvel supervillain?

    Director Taika Waititi reckons it’s Christian Bale as Gorr the God Butcher in the forthcoming Thor: Love and Thunder. But what about Thanos? Or Loki? And who else is in the running?

March 2022

  • Composite image of stills from different Batman movies

    Kapow! Our writers pick their favorite Batman movie

    To celebrate the release of The Batman, Guardian writers have written about their all-time favorite Caped Crusader films from Adam West to Ben Affleck

February 2022

  • Charlize Theron and Tom Hardy in Mad Max: Fury Road.

    Lights! Camera! Infraction! Mad Max shows why Hollywood indulges bad behaviour

    Charlize Theron felt so threatened by Mad Max co-star Tom Hardy that she asked for a female producer as protection. Yet the industry still relies on film sets being lawless bubbles where you question macho posturing at your peril

December 2021

  • Adam McKay: ‘How does a society function when bad news is not an easy sell?’

    Adam McKay: ‘Leo sees Meryl as film royalty – he didn’t like seeing her with a lower back tattoo’

    After politics in Vice and finance in The Big Short, director McKay is taking on the climate crisis in his star-studded ‘freakout’ satire Don’t Look Up
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