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11/16/08
Cool Hand Luke (1967)
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Reviews Counted: 41
Fresh: 41
Rotten:0
Average Rating: 8.8/10
Runtime: 2 hrs 7 mins
Genre: Dramas
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
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Reviews for Cool Hand Luke
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
Top Critic Too cool for words, then switches past midstream into a work of poignancy and power.
08/22/08
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Top Critic 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 Critic Paul 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
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02/09/06
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An amazing accomplishment by Newman as the best fight man has left in him.
12/06/05
Cool Hand Luke rivals only One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as the best movie ever made about men locked up.
09/21/05
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