While the film may build to a sort of resolution, we are made aware that the true evils in this tale are the very real systems and institutions that uphold those foundations that have pushed marginalized people down for as long as time can remember.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 22, 2022

The Power seems less interested in scaring us as it does on finding an agreed social commentary

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 4, 2022

The titular "power" can mean several things - and this moody fright of a film accomplishes a lot, though there will be some who complain about what it's trying to uncover.

| Sep 8, 2021

The Power elegantly knits together atmospheric terrors and institutional ones, providing a reminder that it's not always the things that go bump in the night that are the true threat.

| Aug 11, 2021

Its jumps and jolts might be a little generic, but the command of lighting is impressive and Faith knows how to maximise every shadow and shape moving in the darkness.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jul 29, 2021

Indeed, it feels, at times, like you're watching a harrowing episode of Call The Midwife, but writer/director Corinna Faith does pull it round from an aimless middle to a really satisfying conclusion...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 17, 2021

[The Power] transforms a perfectly okay scary movie into an altogether more powerful, hard-earned catharsis.

| Jun 6, 2021

A well-done, creaky atmospheric horror film.

| Original Score: B+ | Jun 5, 2021

the location and the production design are top-notch, and the general vibe of the piece is just endlessly eerie.

| May 21, 2021

Aims to add some gravity to its spookiness with a critique of classism and sexism, but in the end it's just a ghost story with pretensions to contemporary relevance.

| Original Score: C | May 13, 2021

An eerie chiller...great soundtrack, but the thing it really gets right is that it has its own atmosphere.

| May 10, 2021

An archetypal example of a horror film with a killer premise and very little notion of what to do with that premise.

| Original Score: C | May 6, 2021

Williams is impossibly good as Val...

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 5, 2021

Here's hoping films like The Power will shed some enough light on the corruption that it can no longer hide in the shadows.

| Apr 23, 2021

Despite a shaky dismount, The Power is still an effective atmospheric experience. Faith builds a world that's fascinating to spend time in, with a creepy story and characters that establish and power the movie's central conflict.

| Apr 16, 2021

The Power would have been a stellar horror-thriller even if it were more traditional. As it is, its concoction of supernatural horror and mundane horror creates an experience that is often thrilling but mostly unsettles one to the core.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 15, 2021

Writer/director Corinna Faith manages to be very scary on a number of fronts.

| Original Score: B+ | Apr 14, 2021

All in all, the film is pretty hard to fault. The performances are excellent all-round, with Rose Williams showing off incredible range in the central role.

| Apr 13, 2021

The Power is a blistering and classically haunting tale of ghosts and the monsters that make them.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 13, 2021

The movie's period spookiness and its #MeToo outrage have virtually nothing to do each with other, diminishing the efficacy of both and making it feel like a tract.

| Original Score: C | Apr 13, 2021