Given the charnel-house atmosphere of Tony Manero and Post Mortem, it's striking that Larraín concludes his Pinochet trilogy on a note of near-giddy optimism.

| Mar 4, 2018

Larraín shows how idealism and venality sat side by side, how quickly the brutal circumstances in which Pinochet came to power were forgotten and how little seemed to change once he left.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 1, 2014

The best movie ever made about Chilean plebiscites, No thoroughly deserves its Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Film.

| Jan 1, 2014

No reminds us that wherever "freedom" must be sold to the public, a history of complacency, violence, and terror has to be overcome.

| Jul 1, 2013

No is a great historical document as to how one very important revolution started with a commercial.

Full Review | Original Score: 4.0/5.0 | Apr 24, 2013

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.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 29, 2013

"No" is a picture that perches precariously on the cusp of a paradox.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 28, 2013

"No" is filmmaking of the first order.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 28, 2013

A canny comedy and cutting critique, Pablo Larraín's No looks back at the 1980 vote to extend or end Chilean autocrat Augusto Pinochet's rule through an adman's eyes.

| Original Score: A- | Mar 21, 2013

A cunning and richly enjoyable combination of high-stakes drama and media satire from Chilean director Pablo Larrain.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 15, 2013

A mesmerizing, realistic and often hilarious look at the politics of power and the power of ideas ...

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 14, 2013

A political drama, a personal drama, a sharp-eyed study of how the media manipulate us from all sides, No reels and ricochets with emotional force.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 14, 2013

Stirring as a celebration of voter empowerment, No may also inspire pangs of wistful nostalgia.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 10, 2013

On every level, "No" leaves one with bittersweet feelings about democracy, love and the cost of compromise.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 7, 2013

If 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.

| Mar 7, 2013

If there are fewer white-knuckle showdowns than in a Hollywood movie, the trade-off is a cool, ironic intelligence that ripples off the screen and up the years to where we live.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Mar 7, 2013

"No" stands proudly in a select sub-category of historical fiction films that work, completely and satisfyingly, as their own movies.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 7, 2013

García Bernal quietly carries this film as a soft-spoken kid in blue jeans and untucked shirt.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Mar 7, 2013

"No" isn't nearly as definitive or declarative as its title: It leaves viewers wondering whether they should cheer, shrug or shake their heads.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Mar 1, 2013

There will have to be a hell of a lot of good movies released in 2013 for No not to make my list of the year's 10 best.

Full Review | Feb 28, 2013