The Purge: Anarchy

An equally effective, deliciously disturbing movie.

The Purge: Anarchy is basically a slasher movie in which society is the deranged killer. It plays like it’s already a grindhouse classic...

The story has a welcome sense of continuous momentum, and what’s more, DeMonaco has a better handle on both his skewering of the en...

The Purge: Anarchy efficiently exploits its high-concept premise while delivering far more visceral thrills than its predecessor.

A nasty little B-picture, unashamed of its exploitation roots.

Delivers the classic genre thrill of watching archetypal strangers band together in order to get from Point A to Point B.

The Purge films are the kind of lean, clever exploitation pics that you could imagine Roger Corman making in an earlier era.

[A] satisfyingly creepy, blunt, down-and-dirty thriller, one of those follow-ups that improves on the original.

Flickers of dread materialise – care of those one-percenters co-opting the event for entertainment – though again we’re mostly in s...

It’s the plotting, including a number of unexpected twists and turns throughout, that raises the film above the expected blood fest and...

James DeMonaco may doubly, sometimes triply, underline the story’s governing theme of social power and how it’s exchanged, but the rage...

While the film is rutted with plot holes, lapses in logic and tin-eared dialogue – the obvious is stated again and again – it falls squar...

"The Purge: Anarchy" is more in line with what people going to a "Purge" movie would want out of a "Purge" movie.

The action sequences are well judged throughout. But we never get any closer to understanding which end of the fence the film-makers sit at.