Halloween might be over, but people are still in the mood for some frights — and bloodshed. The Purge: Anarchy expands the original film's high-concept premise of "once-a-year legal crime" into the ...

The Purge premiered in 2013, showing a supposedly utopian America where crime rates have fallen to their lowest in decades. The problem is that the country achieves these low crime rates through “the ...

Hidden well beneath the bloodshed, loud gun play, needless plot additions and over-the-top implausibility, there is a powerful message in The Purge: Anarchy. The problem is that any commentary is lost ...

You might not be aware of this, but approximately five years from now, our government will be taken over by a nebulous group of bureaucrats who refer to themselves as the New Founding Fathers. One of ...

Frank Grillo and Elizabeth Mitchell in “The Purge: Election Year” is playing in Bellingham at the Barkley Village 16. Universal Pictures Tribune News Service “The Purge,” 2013’s low-budget home ...

Halloween might be over, but people are still in the mood for some frights — and bloodshed. By bringing its sequel outside, The Purge: Anarchy becomes an immediate step up from its predecessor. Not ...

Racism, bigotry and class struggles are also important concepts in the franchise, and as the series continued, those messages were amplified more and more, turning The Purge into one of the most ...