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Christian Bale on why he doesn’t rate his Batman performance in the Dark Knight trilogy

Source: Warner Bros Pictures

It takes a brave actor to openly criticise their own performance years later – especially with no reason to do so – but that's exactly something Christian Bale has done.

The Hollywood star, who is celebrating his 50th birthday today many times over the past decade, but not always positively.

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