Editing Cool Hand Luke (section)

===Later reviews===
{{RT prose|{{RT data|score}}|{{RT data|average}}|{{RT data|count}}|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.}}{{sfn|Rotten Tomatoes staff|2013}} {{Metacritic film prose|92|16|ref=yes}} ''[[Empire (magazine)|Empire]]'' rated it five stars out of five, declaring the movie one of Newman's best performances.{{sfn|Empire Magazine staff|2005}} ''[[Slant (magazine)|Slant]]'' rated the film three stars out of four. It described Newman's role as "iconic", also praising its cinematography and sound score.{{sfn|Weber, Bill|2008}} [[Allmovie#History|Allmovie]] praised Newman's performance as "one of the most indelible anti-authoritarian heroes in movie history".{{sfn|Doberman, Matthew|2009}} [[Roger Ebert]] included the film in his review collection ''[[The Great Movies]]'', rating it four stars out of four.{{sfn|Ebert, Roger|p=102|2010}} He called it a "great" film and also an anti-establishment one during the Vietnam War. He believed the film was a product of its time and that no major film company would be interested in producing a film of such "physical punishment, psychological cruelty, hopelessness and equal parts of sadism and masochism" today. He praised the cinematography, capturing the "punishing heat" of the location, and stated that "the physical presence of Paul Newman is the reason this movie works: The smile, the innocent blue eyes, the lack of strutting", which no other actor could have produced as effectively.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-cool-hand-luke-1967 |date=July 10, 2008 |title=Cool Hand Luke|first=Roger |last=Ebert|access-date=October 20, 2013|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130602235648/http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-cool-hand-luke-1967|archive-date=June 2, 2013|df=mdy-all}}</ref>

Newman's biographer Lawrence J. Quirk considered it one of Newman's weaker performances, writing, "For once, even Newman's famed charisma fails him, for in ''Cool Hand Luke'' he completely lacks the charm that, say, [[Al Pacino]] in ''[[Scarecrow (1973 film)|Scarecrow]]'' effortlessly exhibits when he plays a screw-up who also winds up (briefly) incarcerated."{{sfn|Quirk|2009|p=154}} Quirk added that Newman's performance was stronger in the second half: "to be fair to Newman, he was trying his damnedest to play an impossible part, since Luke is a convict's rationalization fantasy and never a real character".{{sfn|Quirk|2009|p=155}} Some authors have criticized the film's depiction of prison life at the time. In a review called "Sheer Beauty in the Wrong Place", ''[[Life (magazine)|Life]]'', while praising the film's photography, criticized the influence of the visual styles in the depictions of the prison camp. The magazine declared that the landscapes turned it into "a rest camp [in which] the men are getting plenty of sleep, food and healthy outdoor exercise", and that despite the presence of the guards, it showed that there were "worse ways to pay one's debt with society".{{sfn|Schickel, Richard|p={{google books|id=VUkEAAAAMBAJ|page=10}}|1967}} Ron Clooney also remarked that prisons "were not hotels and certainly not the stuff of ''Cool Hand Luke'' movies".{{sfn|Clooney|2011|p=231}}