No

Gael Garcia Bernal stars as a skateboarding Chilean ad executive in NO, a grainy portrait of the political advertising surrounding the 1989 referendum of Chile’s military dictator Augusto Pinochet. Bernal’s character Rene revolutionizes the "no" campaign by using upbeat tropes from commercial ads in the 15 minutes his team is allotted nightly to sell their cause. Meanwhile, Rene’s agency boss uses shady tactics to lead Pinochet’s opposing promotional corps. The film was nominated for Best Foreign Picture at this year’s Academy Awards. Compared to something like Argo, which looks and feels like a film made in 2012 about the 1970s, NO seems more archival, more docu- than -drama. It captures 1980s Chile in exquisite vintage. (Sam Allard)