The big thing with this film is the same thing with every film in this genre; it's extremely predictable and the characters do things they would never do in real life.

| Original Score: C+ | Aug 20, 2024

Introduces an entirely fresh and interesting premise and universe, only to completely squander that potential with a generic home-invasion thriller.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Sep 20, 2023

Whereas DeMonaco tries to say something is deeply wrong with a society that needs to purge its violent impulses, it’s unsettling to sit in a crowd that completely misses the point.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Sep 6, 2022

“The Purge” is never boring and it does create some frights and intensity..

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Aug 24, 2022

It's well acted and well made, but don't expect an ostentatious visual experience. [Full review in Spanish]

| Aug 3, 2022

...a sharp social satire that dilutes its potency with each gun it pulls out.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 25, 2022

For all its willingness to serve the viewer generous dollops of violence, noise, and terror, The Purge is oddly lacking in energy.

| Feb 11, 2021

Every cliché is unearthed: children carelessly disobey orders, adults panic, characters wander around in the dark, and everyone seems to achieve sudden bouts of courage.

| Original Score: 4/10 | Dec 4, 2020

It's more appropriately described as a suspense/thriller with some particularly intriguing political and religious threads running through it.

| Original Score: 3.0/4.0 | Sep 20, 2020

An ugly, vile, and miserable film that essentially argues that all humans are evil.

| Original Score: D- | Jul 24, 2020

While there is a lot of promise in the premise, The Purge just ends up becoming Assault on Suburb 13.

| Jul 17, 2020

For a horror movie, The Purge has an unusually high concept.

| Original Score: 3.8/5 | Jan 8, 2020

All about totalitarianism, the police state, and how extreme white right-wing politics have the ability to rise in the wake of economic collapse.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 7, 2019

It gets sillier and sillier as it goes, with the characters constantly doing dumb things. The film then tries to take a moral stand in the final act, but it feels false.

| Original Score: D+ | Apr 10, 2019

While it is entertaining enough, it never feels like the quasi-Orwellian allegory it was clearly meant to be.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Feb 20, 2019

While The Purge can be compared to plenty of other movies about families under siege, DeMonaco is good at winding up suspense and keeping the action going.

| Original Score: B | Jan 26, 2019

The Purge draws audiences in with one big idea, but doesn't deliver a narrative that effectively takes advantage of the theory.

| Oct 25, 2018

Were it not for one inconvenient fact, The Purge could easily have passed into movie history as a rather decent slasher-thriller. Unfortunately, The Hunger Games got there first and got there better.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Oct 31, 2017

... though the film struggles to flesh out this rather Dystopian concept (something nearly every futuristic film has these days), it succeeds in its gripping suspense and romantic eye for violence.

| Original Score: C+ | Sep 7, 2017

An entertaining and deeply unsettling premonition of the state the US's obsession with guns may leave it in.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 5, 2017