Fun Horror Action but AWFUL Villain characters that annoy you through the entire runtime.

| Aug 7, 2023

Whether DeMonaco is visualizing a reflection of our current condition or providing a cautionary tale, his dependency on his high-minded message ultimately drowns out the drama.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Aug 24, 2022

DeMonaco's movie provides his audience with the very thing the movie seems to condemn: mindless, uninhibited aggression.

| Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 11, 2022

Election Year might actually be the most interesting of the three films, it can't really escape from its heavy-handed storytelling.

| Mar 3, 2021

The twinges of awareness you'll feel will make it a bit hard-but nowhere near impossible-to enjoy the ride. But enjoy it you will.

| Jan 5, 2021

Here, the political implications couldn't be more timely, especially with the growing discontent for the establishment.

| Original Score: 3/10 | Dec 5, 2020

After a weak start and a decent sequel, The Purge: Election Year allows the series to finally feel like the genre it wants be: Urban Survival Horror, with the commentary on the side.

| Jul 17, 2020

While the manic craziness and creepy imagery can be entertaining at times, the desperate urge to have a point and the jumbled world building drag the momentum down like an anchor around its neck.

| Original Score: C | Jul 3, 2020

So many horror/thrillers are happy to deliver surface level thrills, and that's fine, but this tight little trilogy has aimed to do more, and it's this third entry that did it best.

| Apr 1, 2020

What The Purge: Election Year actually provides is a trashy and violent "exploitation" movie that ends up being bonkers fun.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jan 27, 2020

The Purge: Election Year is basically director DeMarco's love letter to Carpenter's Escape From New York.

| Jan 14, 2020

Perhaps most striking about Election Year, though, is that it's the most unapologetically, socio-politically militant of the three films - no doubt reflecting the atmosphere surrounding Donald Trump's election campaign.

| Original Score: 3.3/5 | Jan 7, 2020

None of the films in The Purge franchise are spectacular works of art, but, for what they are, they are enjoyable enough and this last one is more of the same.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Sep 25, 2019

This is the first Purge film that feels fully realized.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Jul 17, 2019

DeMonaco focuses on white nationalism, the rule of the upper class, revolutionary action, and so much more in this more than worthy sequel.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | May 7, 2019

The saving grace of Election Year has to be the optimism that was lacking from previous films. There's finally some light at the end of this tunnel.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 26, 2019

Despite some of its flaws, The Purge: Election Year is worth checking out. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Jan 30, 2019

After two uneven entries, the series finds its footing and delivers the best film of the three -- one that benefits from being in the right place at the right time.

| Original Score: B- | Jan 15, 2019

The storyline had more substance than I originally thought in regards to how the political system is ran to benefit only certain social classes.

| Nov 13, 2018

For those who like this subgenre, this is one of the good ones.

| Original Score: B | Oct 23, 2018