Release dates

October 2, 2018

2225 days ago

Blu-ray / VOD / DVD

Released

Blu-ray
Oct 2, 2018
2225 days ago
VOD
Oct 2, 2018
2225 days ago
DVD
Oct 2, 2018
2225 days ago
Cinema
Jul 4, 2018
2315 days ago

The First Purge release date

The movie The First Purge is already released on Cinema, Blu-ray, VOD and DVD in the USA.

The First Purge

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Set in a near future America where once a year there is a 12-hour p...
Set in a near future America where once a year there is a 12-hour period where all crime, including the most insane acts of murder, are legal.
Set in a near future America where once a year there is a 12-hour period where all crime, including the most insane acts of murder, are legal.
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What the critics say

Based on 19 reviews, The First Purge gets an average review score of 58

81/100
thewrap.com
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As the nation skids toward totalitarianism, “The Purge” franchise grows ever more plausible

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3/4
slantmagazine.com
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The horror throughout the film is dramatically connected to the struggles of poor and marginalized people.

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B-/A+
avclub.com
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Just in time for Independence Day, The First Purge pulls more thrills from America's ills

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C+/A+
ew.com
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The First Purge comes second to the horror of real life

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70/100
villagevoice.com
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“The First Purge” Makes the Previous “Purge” Movies Look Subtle

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C+/A+
thefilmstage.com
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The First Purge becomes a call to arms so to speak (sometimes to its detriment) — a reminder that we must stand up and for each other at the voting booths and in our communities now so we won’t need the civil war of Election Year.

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63/100
chicagotribune.com
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The riskiest-ever federal entitlement program begins

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60/100
nytimes.com
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Even the most ardent fan could find its bluntness uncomfortably timely: In our build-that-wall moment, a story about a government-sponsored plan to cull poor minorities feels less like political satire than current-affairs commentary.

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3/5
telegraph.co.uk
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Hair-raising prequel punches at every hot button in sight

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3/5
rollingstone.com
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Horror franchise takes viewers back to Purge-day ground zero – and takes its B-movie premise into incendiary territory

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3/5
austinchronicle.com
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The First Purge pulls no punches. Like Childish Gambino said, this is America.

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3/5
empireonline.com
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The New Founding Fathers of America set Staten Island as the battleground for the first experimental Purge. Drug lord Dmitri (Y’lan Noel) seeks to protect his turf, while his activist ex-girlfriend Nya (Lex Scott Davis) holes up in a church and her younger brother Isaiah (Joivan Wade) seeks revenge on a violent junkie.

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50/100
variety.com
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A prequel to the 'Purge' series, and the first one set in the inner city, is a threadbare exploitation film that still manages to pack a timely punch.

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5/10
ign.com
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This prequel comes up empty when mining real-life tragedies as the backdrop for a summer movie.

2289d ago

D/A+
theplaylist.net
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‘The First Purge’ Is Angry, But Doesn’t Know What To Do With Its Rage

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2/5
theguardian.com
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The fourth chapter in the often inventive yet shoddily written franchise, where crime is legal once a year, delivers an unpleasant, visceral assault with uneven results

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2/5
wegotthiscovered.com
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The First Purge doubles-down on bloody opposition against true-to-life societal fears, but abandons the subtlety needed to prevent Gerard McMurray’s prequel from becoming anything more than hateful retribution.

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40/100
hollywoodreporter.com
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Director Gerard McMurray takes over for series creator James DeMonaco in the fourth bloody slog through an annual anything-goes national holiday.

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1.5/4
rogerebert.com
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Once the mercenaries start tooling around wearing actual Ku Klux Klan outfits, the pretenses to allegory have gone out the window. And yes, it is salutary to see guys with pointy hoods getting blown away by righteous African-American avengers. But the cinematic cost of getting there was not, for this viewer, worth it.

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