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05/02/09
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
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Reviews Counted:43
Fresh:43
Rotten:0
Average Rating:8.7/10
Consensus: Though hampered by Stuart Rosenberg's direction, Cool Hand Luke is held aloft by a stellar script and one of Paul Newman's most indelible performances.
Synopsis: In this classic Southern prison drama, social misfit Lucas "Luke" Jackson (Paul Newman) is incarcerated for a petty crime and sentenced to a chain gang. Luke is a sullen and laconic young man whose... [More]
Starring: Paul Newman, George Kennedy, Strother Martin, Jo Van Fleet
Director: Stuart Rosenberg
Reviews for Cool Hand Luke
Stuart Rosenberg's direction is a horror, but the cast teems with so many familiar faces that this 1967 film can't help but entertain.
04/23/09
Anchored by Paul Newman's thoroughly magnetic performance...
11/16/08
Newman remains watchable and glamorous throughout, bloody, muddy or coated in torso-flattering sweat, but the film's efforts to sentimentally "humanize" him by psychological revelation are clumsy.
09/09/08
The lines and the character have survived the film's oft-forgotten actual message.
09/05/08
Cool Hand Luke now seems more like a well-made entertainment than any kind of American masterpiece.
09/04/08
...most viewers will have little failure understanding the movie and its motives. They communicate brilliantly.
08/26/08
One of those movies you remember Great Moments from.
08/22/08
Top CriticA picture of chilling dramatic power.
08/22/08
Too cool for words, then switches past midstream into a work of poignancy and power.
08/22/08
Paul Newman in his blue-eyed prime.
08/22/08
Preserves a time when one could not only get away with making an allegory with an existential hero, but stock it with an ensemble from the Actors Studio. [Blu-Ray]
08/21/08
Newman gives an excellent performance, assisted by a terriffic supporting cast, including George Kennedy, outstanding as the unofficial leader of the cons who yields first place to Newman.
07/22/08
Top CriticPaul Newman and George Kennedy are at their best at this popular prison drama, which drew on the Depression era film, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang. Quote to remember: "What we've got here is a failure to communicate."
04/04/07
Thematic ambivalence and episodic structure start to feel like major virtues: Cool Hand Luke is one of our most lived-in and pleasurably paced odes to nonconformity.
10/15/06
gorgeous looking and terrifically acted
08/20/06
A caustically witty look at the American South and its still-surviving chain gangs, with Newman in fine sardonic form as the boss-baiter who refuses to submit and becomes a hero to his fellow-prisoners.
02/09/06
No review available.
01/06/06
An amazing accomplishment by Newman as the best fight man has left in him.
12/06/05
Classic anti-hero story still packs a punch.
11/04/05
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