The First Purge Cinema Release Date

As the nation skids toward totalitarianism, “The Purge” franchise grows ever more plausible

The horror throughout the film is dramatically connected to the struggles of poor and marginalized people.

Just in time for Independence Day, The First Purge pulls more thrills from America's ills

The First Purge comes second to the horror of real life

“The First Purge” Makes the Previous “Purge” Movies Look Subtle

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...

The riskiest-ever federal entitlement program begins

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 le...

Hair-raising prequel punches at every hot button in sight

Horror franchise takes viewers back to Purge-day ground zero – and takes its B-movie premise into incendiary territory

The First Purge pulls no punches. Like Childish Gambino said, this is America.

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 ac...

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.

This prequel comes up empty when mining real-life tragedies as the backdrop for a summer movie.

‘The First Purge’ Is Angry, But Doesn’t Know What To Do With Its Rage

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

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 anythi...

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

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 point...