A fact-filled and emotionally shocking documentary on how police power has expanded exponentially over the years.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Jan 9, 2025

This film serves as a strong complement to other eye-opening examinations of race in American history like Stamped from the Beginning and Driving While Black. Ford has assembled a thorough history lesson while also remaining grounded in the present.

| Original Score: B+ | Jul 24, 2024

One can be sympathetic to these points and still find “Power” to be a scattershot TED Talk in cinematic clothing.

| Jul 10, 2024

For those viewers already on the film's political wavelength, Power offers relatively little new thinking, but it works as a clear, rousing and urgent reminder of the complexities and contradictions that underpin so much of society.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 30, 2024

Significant issues are at play in the world of criminal justice, and Ford’s documentary should help educate those unaware of the problems. However, it feels underwhelming for anyone with more knowledge of the topic.

| Original Score: 6/10 | May 24, 2024

[Power] delivers a searing, searching survey of the history of American policing and the pervasive issues that have allowed countless officers across the nation to intimidate and brutalise citizens under a banner of “law and order”.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 23, 2024

While the information and insight is valuable, this documentary unfortunately works against itself through awkward technical executions, ineffective voiceovers, a seriously sudden ending, and the lack of opposing viewpoints.

| May 23, 2024

This was the scariest horror film of 2024. This film is stark and real as now, as evidence all around proves the continued and even politically encouraged use of force in policing. The question yet again is who is watching the watchman, & is it too late?

| Original Score: 5/5 | May 22, 2024

“Power” makes an intellectual argument, but it’s built on a visceral foundation, purposefully bleeding from past generations into the current one.

| May 17, 2024

Power channels its rage into a calm, collected and persuasive argument.

| May 17, 2024

Power wants viewers to be haunted by what they've seen. It wants us to use that feeling as a conduit for change.

| May 17, 2024

A scathing indictment and scholarly examination of the history of policing in America, documentarian Yance Ford’s Power is a wake up call to the world in an era of growing inequality and social revolution.

| Original Score: 8/10 | May 17, 2024

It’s a rich but fairly uncomplicated examination, and while it could be said that it overstates some of its points, it’s never disengaging.

| May 16, 2024

It's missing a sense of urgency that would seem necessary for the subject...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | May 16, 2024

Yance Ford's documentary film commands your attention and should make the ones in power uncomfortable in their own skin.

| Original Score: 8/10 | May 15, 2024

When you’re grappling with a leviathan like America’s militarized police state, being timely and accessible isn’t nearly enough.

| Original Score: 6.7/10 | May 15, 2024

A concise and informative documentary... It's a complex analysis made very clear.

| May 15, 2024

“Power” could just as easily have benefited from the docuseries treatment, but even at less than 90 minutes, it lands plenty of hard truths and harder questions.

| May 13, 2024

The concepts introduced in “Power” are inherently alluring. What makes it all the more potent is how this history still lingers within our society to this day.

| Original Score: 7/10 | May 13, 2024

The goal of “Power” is to call police brutality into question, not put it on trial.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 10, 2024