
Military dictator Augusto Pinochet calls for a referendum to decide his permanence in power in 1988, the leaders of the opposition persuade a young daring advertising executive - René Saavedra - to head their campaign. With limited resources and under the constant scrutiny of the despot's watchmen, Saavedra and his team conceive of a bold plan to win the election and free their country from oppression.... (Full plot summary below)
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Military dictator Augusto Pinochet calls for a referendum to decide his permanence in power in 1988, the leaders of the opposition persuade a young daring advertising executive - René Saavedra - to head their campaign. With limited resources and under the constant scrutiny of the despot's watchmen, Saavedra and his team conceive of a bold plan to win the election and free their country from oppression.
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| GreenCineBrandon JudellThis battle and this triumph of an ad executive makes NO the first great film of 2013, and Bernal's performance the one that will be the hardest to outshine. |
| Chicago Sun-TimesOmer MozaffarGarcía Bernal quietly carries this film as a soft-spoken kid in blue jeans and untucked shirt. |
| Globe and MailLiam LaceyA cunning and richly enjoyable combination of high-stakes drama and media satire from Chilean director Pablo Larrain. |
| Capital Times (Madison, WI)Rob ThomasSilliness is on the side of the angels in a brilliant and highly entertaining film that's part political thriller, part media satire. |
| FILMINK (Australia)Cara NashA bitingly funny, fascinating and moving portrait of Pinochet's fall that's smartly shot and superbly performed. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsMuch like Bonello’s previous film, “Yves Saint Laurent,” Nocturama revels in pure experience. But the sum total of its gliding abstractions is a mite brainless. |
| NewsdayJohn AndersonOn every level, "No" leaves one with bittersweet feelings about democracy, love and the cost of compromise. |
| Chicago ReaderJ. R. JonesIf you can shake off the inherent grossness of mining the Pinochet years for yet another Mad Man-style deification of zeitgeist-grasping salesmen, this is moderately interesting stuff. |
| Rolling StonePeter TraversNominated by the Academy as the year's best foreign-language film, No grabs you hard, no mercy, and keeps you riveted. |
| QuickflixSimon MiraudoLarraín's script is punctuated by dark bursts of humour, and the filmmaker knowingly navigates his audience to a nail-biting - though never cloying, and fully warranted - climax. |