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Releasing on May 10, 2024
  • 2024
  • R
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 29 m
  • 2024
  • R
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 29 m

Summary Driven to maintain social order, policing in the United States has exploded in scope and scale over hundreds of years. Now, American policing embodies one word: power. A cogent essay film inviting conscious engagement and reflection on a system of control that has gone largely unquestioned, Power is a sweeping chronicle of the history an...

Directed By: Yance Ford

Written By: Ian Olds, Yance Ford

  • 2024
  • R
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 29 m
  • 2024
  • R
  • Netflix
  • 1 h 29 m

Power

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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Summary Driven to maintain social order, policing in the United States has exploded in scope and scale over hundreds of years. Now, American policing embodies one word: power. A cogent essay film inviting conscious engagement and reflection on a system of control that has gone largely unquestioned, Power is a sweeping chronicle of the history an...

Directed By: Yance Ford

Written By: Ian Olds, Yance Ford

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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57% Positive
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43% Mixed
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Generally Favorable Based on 7 Critic Reviews
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57% Positive
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43% Mixed
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98
Apr 25, 2024
The film is utterly singular to American design—as is the policing system in question—and a masterclass in effective documentary work that exists solely to deliver an impalpable truth.
By Lex Briscuso FULL REVIEW
90
Apr 25, 2024
Power exposes the myth of good policing for what it is: one of the most expensive and calculated PR campaigns in history. And by extension, the film dismantles the idea of America as the land of the free, emphasizing that freedom only belongs to those with enough power and social capital to avoid the oppressive boot of law enforcement.
By Jourdain Searles FULL REVIEW
83
Apr 25, 2024
This film is blunt and direct to degrees that may disengage some viewers.
By Dan Mecca FULL REVIEW
75
Apr 25, 2024
Power achieves a profoundly unsettling sweep by prioritizing breadth over depth, and Ford’s doc is able to cover a ton of ground as it hopscotches between chapter titles like “PROPERTY” and “STATUS QUO” in order to argue that policing has always served as an instrument to maintain class order.
By David Ehrlich FULL REVIEW
60
Apr 25, 2024
Anyone watching the film is likely to learn something, though whether its lessons will stick, or claw their way beneath one’s skin, is less likely.
By Siddhant Adlakha FULL REVIEW
60
Apr 25, 2024
The film makes cogent, sweeping sense of the record for perhaps the most illuminative, swift and damning case against the institution of policing – the real fourth estate, as one subject puts it – of the many investigations conducted in the wake of the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests. But there’s a dryness to its procedure.
By Adrian Horton FULL REVIEW
58
Apr 25, 2024
The film, then, is a useful primer for historicizing and contextualizing the relationship between methods of social control and the rise of policing, both as an unchecked institution and a term associated with the history of the United States. One just wishes the film would slow down every once in a while.
By Christian Gallichio FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Corvidae Media, Multitude Films, Story Syndicate
Release Date May 10, 2024
Duration 1 h 29 m
Rating R
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Website https://www.multitudefilms.com/power
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Awards

Cleveland International Film Festival
• 1 Nomination
CPH:DOX
• 1 Nomination

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