Reviews for this film from our members:
- [New – 4/3/14] | Rick Aragon @ Rick’s Cafe Texan
- David Bax @ Battleship Pretension
- Excerpt: Alongside the lively Tony Manero (2008) and the meditatively bizarre Post-Mortem (2010), Larraín has crafted a loose trilogy about life in Chile during the Pinochet regime. No, with its triumphant humanism, is the perfect conclusion to the story while also being one of the decade’s best films in its own right.
- Tim Brayton @ Antagony & Ecstasy
- Excerpt: Freshens up a decades-old story with vibrant humor and a good sense of storytelling.
- Samuel Castro @ Ochoymedio.info [Spanish]
- Excerpt: A través de la visión de un publicista contratado para crear la campaña por el No en el plebiscito chileno de 1988, vemos un momento glorioso de la historia latiinoamericana, cuando un pueblo fue capaz de terminar la carrera política de Augusto Pinochet
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: It hangs on three ideas…While each…is intriguing, the execution of all is less than satisfying.
- Carlos del Río @ El rincón de Carlos del Río [Spanish]
- Excerpt: “No” es una película que funciona gracias a que sabes parte de la historia y porque logra momentos de mucha emoción, pero narrativamente es bastante mediocre.
- Roderick Heath @ Ferdy on Films
- Excerpt: His method and viewpoint in tackling Pinochet’s unseating retains a fascination for the unpredictable power of media imaging to fuel the fantasies of “ordinary” people and the perverse influence of those fantasies on reality.
- Benjamin Kramer @ The Voracious Filmgoer
- Marty Mapes @ Movie Habit
- Excerpt: Old technology plus the packaging of a revolution add up to a Yes
- Simon Miraudo @ Quickflix
- R. Kurt Osenlund @ Slant Magazine
- Jonathan Richards @ www.jonrichardsplace.com
- Excerpt: It’s Coke vs. Pepsi, with the fate and freedom of a nation to the winner.
- Cole Smithey @ ColeSmithey.com
- Excerpt: “No” falls completely flat as a piece of agitprop cinema.
- Frank Swietek @ One Guys Opinion
- Excerpt: Smoothly juxtaposing strarkly serious sequences against moments of dark and not-so-dark humor, Larrain fashions an unlikely crowd-pleaser that has its share of tragedy as well as triumph.
- Jean-François Vandeuren @ Panorama-cinema.com [French]
