No Reviews
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
... like Mad Men, it's a period piece set in the world of advertising and it pays a distracting (and sometimes humorous) amount of attention to period details.
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| Original Score: 87/100
Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)
It works as drama. And strangely, considering we know the outcome, it generates considerable suspense.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Fresno Bee
Despite the light-heartedness, there's a hard, tense edge to the film.
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| Original Score: A-
3AW
Shooting the entire film on video equipment of the era gives No some visual snap but it is very much a pedestrian, by-the-numbers docu-drama tale, with the emphasis on the former rather than the latter.
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| Original Score: 2/5
AspectRatio.us
NO is an important film - especially for people too young or too far removed from Pinochet's "Dirty War" to remember how horrifying the situation was in Argentina during the '70s and '80s. Bernal's screen presence goes a long way in making the movie work
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| Original Score: 4
FILMINK (Australia)
A bitingly funny, fascinating and moving portrait of Pinochet's fall that's smartly shot and superbly performed.
Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)
"NO" is an inspirational political drama in which the people are roused by the visual to overcome the vicious.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Rip It Up
... features a fine performance by Gael García Bernal as young ad exec René Saavedra, who didn't, at first, quite realise what he was in for when he decided to assist in the bringing down of military dictator Augusto Pinochet.
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| Original Score: 3.5/5
Film Threat
No is a great historical document as to how one very important revolution started with a commercial.
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| Original Score: 4.0/5.0
Ozus' World Movie Reviews
The understated performance by Bernal was inspiring, as was the pic.
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| Original Score: B
ABC Radio (Australia)
It's not easy material but it's truly fascinating, and expertly done.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Cinema Autopsy
An extremely perceptive and intriguing examination of the effect that media hype and spin have on the political process.
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| Original Score: 4.5/5
Metro Times (Detroit, MI)
...a bitter and knowing meditation on media manipulation and political subversion.
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| Original Score: B+
Las Vegas Weekly
Larrain deftly mixes social satire and historical drama.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Times-Picayune
All historical and little drama.
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| Original Score: 2/5
Tampa Bay Times
Larrain does a fine job of making No look and sound authentic to its time period, although the VHS-quality photography, all washed-out with colors bleeding together as camcorders did in the '80s, is an occasional irritant.
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| Original Score: B
Capital Times (Madison, WI)
Silliness is on the side of the angels in a brilliant and highly entertaining film that's part political thriller, part media satire.
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| Original Score: 4/4
Austin Chronicle
It's clear that the language of advertising has become universal, and that political commodities can be sold like soap. But toppling a dictatorship? Now there's a story.
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| Original Score: 3/5
Top Critic"No" is a picture that perches precariously on the cusp of a paradox.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
A reflection of a moment in time, made in the image of that moment.
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| Original Score: 3.5/4
