The Machinist is a great movie in its own right, but it's undeniable the visual alarm caused by seeing Christian Bale skinny ...

The Machinist is unrelentingly dreary, and seemingly destined to be remembered, if at all, as that movie Christian Bale lost a full third of his body weight for. It doesn't deserve any better.

From start to finish, The Machinist is a movie that looks incomparably ill – Reznik is almost feral in his fear of what may or may not be occurring around him, and Christian Bale’s ...

Brad Anderson has been a director to watch ever since making his feature debut with romantic comedy Next Stop Wonderland (1997), but The Machinist is something radically different. It's a haunting ...

I would never pay to see this movie, and I am a little upset I wasted my gas just to go see it. This feeling of being sick to my stomach leaves me no choice but to give "The Machinist" one out of five ...

Normally weighing in at 185 pounds, the actor adhered to a fairly uncomplicated weight-loss regimen for the movie “The Machinist.” He ignored food and ramped up his fat-burning power by running.