[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

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

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

Throughout Power, Yance Ford draws a startlingly clear line from the origins of modern policing as a slave patrol to its present-day iteration.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 5, 2024

Interrogating the phrase “law and order,” Power makes plain the police’s role in maintaining an unfair class system.

| Feb 5, 2024

It is meant to be an introduction — a teaching tool ideal for classrooms or for adults open to change.

| Jan 25, 2024

“Power” circles around topics, often repeating bullet points without ever discovering a unique approach to the material.

| Jan 25, 2024

[Ford's] ideas elaborate on arguments familiar from several generations of activism. But the film's lucid presentation of these ideas makes it feel like seeing a gun being taken apart and put back together again.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 22, 2024

Power gives deep contextual grounding to a demand for change. How to make it is a question for another time.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 20, 2024

One of the most powerful documentaries ever put to film

| Jan 19, 2024

The decision to take a top-down view of systemic violence also ends up being embodied by a sense of personal detachment in the filmmaking.

| Jan 19, 2024

“Power” achieves a profoundly unsettling sweep by prioritizing breadth over depth...

| Original Score: B | Jan 19, 2024