What President does well is show that linear narrative is not necessarily the point in the fight for democracy.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jan 11, 2022

[A] purposefully infuriating documentary.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Dec 17, 2021

"President" is in-the-moment documentary storytelling of the highest order, and what it's showing is what the threat to democracy everywhere looks like and will continue to look like.

| Dec 17, 2021

Nielsson's access to Chamisa allows for an intimate look at the Catch-22 of establishing a democracy amid state-sanctioned violence and corruption, and the grit of those fighting for it.

| Dec 16, 2021

Democracy, after all, is always a work in progress - and "President" leaves the impression that Zimbabwe's work has a long way to go. Part three can't come soon enough.

| Original Score: B- | Feb 11, 2021

It is a thrilling, enraging film, and its intimate access to Chamisa and his advisers is extraordinary.

| Feb 10, 2021

President exudes a passion for politics that corrals viewers into the relatively uncharted political territory of Africa. Yet it is an environment that will feel oddly familiar to election junkies...

| Feb 2, 2021

A devastating, heartened report of democracy in peril against a dictator, a report that suddenly feels all-too familiar to Americans.

| Jan 30, 2021

It's the testimony of ordinary folk - the election monitor beaten over the head with an iron bar, for example - that makes Nielsson's film so chilling.

| Jan 30, 2021

Politics consistently creates its own tragedy and comedy, and this vital, devastating documentary knows when simply to stand in the crowd.

| Jan 30, 2021