Review of No No: A Dockumentary (2014) by Rex A — 12 Mar 2014

Tells an incredible story and magnifies it for emotional impact. Highly recommend , even to non-sports folks.

This review of No No: A Dockumentary (2014) was written by Rex A on 12 Mar 2014.

No No: A Dockumentary has generally received positive reviews.

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By Katherine Vu (8) for Village Voice (8,525) on 01 Sep 2014

There's enough diamond lore here to please baseball diehards, but Ellis's outsize life will grip even casual fans…

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By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for The Dissolve (1,478) on 02 Sep 2014

Despite the abbreviated ending, No No: A Dockumentary is nevertheless a compelling, deeply moving, fun look at the highs and lows of a bygone era…

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By Kimberley Jones (866) for Austin Chronicle (7,653) on 03 Sep 2014

The film provides invaluable context in its detailing of institutional racism in the Sixties and Seventies and in its emphasis on Ellis as…

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By Josh A (469) on 08 Aug 2015

It's a surprisingly wide-ranging documentary, and Radice generally does a good job telling Ellis' story from an unbiased and candid point of…

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By Don R. Lewis (103) for Film Threat (5,156) on 01 Sep 2014

No No: A Dockumentary really covers a lot of ground, and I felt there were at least 3-4 different documentaries contained in the film that…

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By Daniel M. Gold (107) for New York Times (5,786) on 03 Sep 2014

As this smart and sympathetic profile shows, Dock Ellis didn’t need a no-hitter, stoned or otherwise, to define himself; he was his own best work…

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By Thrillist Entertainment Staff (19) for Thrillist (209) on 28 Nov 2018

No No: A Dockumentary explores the incident, Ellis' rebellious life, and the contextual culture of the 1960s and '70s that turned the player…

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By Christopher Campbell (291) for Nonfics (197) on 29 May 2014

Probably the best documentary that could be made about this subject, it's still a fairly standard work as far as technique and form are concerned…

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By Dennis Schwartz (5,456) for Ozus' World Movie Reviews (5,456) on 11 Sep 2014

A pic that in all likelihood wouldn't have been made if Dock hadn't pitched a no-hitter on acid and became such a national folk-hero to many…

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By Chris Nashawaty (734) for Entertainment Weekly (6,953) on 02 Sep 2014

The fact is, Dock Ellis was...complicated. Probably a lot more so than No No makes him out to be…

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