No No: A Dockumentary
Orchard, The | Release Date: September 5, 2014 CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
68
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 12 Critic Reviews
Positive:
10
Mixed:
2
Negative:
0
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Critic Reviews

Critic scorePublicationBy date
83
The PlaylistDrew TaylorAug 15, 2014
“No No” is a jazzy, joyful exploration of a man that, if he wasn’t able to actually change the system, was at least happy with giving it the middle finger. Read full review
78
Austin ChronicleKimberley JonesSep 4, 2014
The film provides invaluable context in its detailing of institutional racism in the Sixties and Seventies and in its emphasis on Ellis as an advocate for equality and as a righteous shit-stirrer. Read full review
75
San Francisco ChronicleLeba HertzSep 5, 2014
The film is fine in depicting Ellis' times, but it's mostly how he came to realize that he had a serious problem and turned his life around to become a drug-abuse counselor. He died in 2008 at age 63. Read full review
75
Entertainment WeeklyChris NashawatySep 3, 2014
The fact is, Dock Ellis was...complicated. Probably a lot more so than No No makes him out to be. Read full review
75
McClatchy-Tribune News ServiceRoger MooreSep 2, 2014
Radice has delivered an engaging portrait of a loose cannon back when professional sports still produced such unfiltered creatures, a man who lived by his own rules, said what he thought and wore curlers to practice when he felt like it. Read full review
70
The New York TimesDaniel M. GoldSep 4, 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. Read full review
70
Los Angeles TimesRobert AbeleSep 4, 2014
[An] engaging portrait of a complicated but vivid sports figure. Read full review
70
The DissolveNathan RabinSep 3, 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. Read full review
70
Village VoiceKatherine VuSep 2, 2014
There's enough diamond lore here to please baseball diehards, but Ellis's outsize life will grip even casual fans. Read full review
63
Boston GlobeTom RussoSep 4, 2014
The idea that documentarian Jeffrey Radice would make the episode both the hook and the opener for his film is to be expected — it’s an attention-grabbing story. But a hook is all it is. Read full review
60
VarietyBill EdelsteinSep 8, 2014
While the film’s sense of chronology is at times strained and its tale of redemption hardly unique, its subject is certainly one of a kind. Read full review
50
Washington PostAnn HornadaySep 11, 2014
“No No” performs the valuable service of elevating Ellis’s legacy beyond one game, reminding viewers of a career during which he was almost always, as one observer notes, “a chapter ahead.” Read full review
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