1967 · Stuart Rosenberg · 126 min · Drama
Cool Hand Luke is Paul Newman's defining rebel performance, a prison drama that transcends its genre to become a meditation on nonconformity, authority, and what it costs to refuse to break. The egg-eating scene alone has earned its place in cinema history.
1969 · George Roy Hill · 110 min · Western
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a breezy, enormously charming buddy Western powered by the effortless chemistry between Paul Newman and Robert Redford, even if its tonal juggling act doesn't always land cleanly.
2006 · John Lasseter · 117 min · Animation / Family
Cars is the Pixar film adults rank near the bottom of the studio's golden run and a generation of children ranked at the absolute top, a gap that has defined its reputation for two decades. Lightning McQueen's detour into Radiator Springs delivers the studio's most patient message, slow down, community matters, the road is the point, wrapped in Route 66 Americana and anchored by Paul Newman's final voice performance as Doc Hudson. The premise's logic invites questions the film serenely ignores, and its pace idles by design. The kids who wore out the DVDs grew up defending it, and they have a case.