Sequel to last year's B-movie hit has bigger budget, bigger body count.

“The Purge: Anarchy”: Like the 2013 sleeper hit “The Purge,” its inevitable sequel mixes social commentary with relentless assaults on the senses.

The action takes to the streets in this sequel to last summer's surprise horror hit.

(15) James DeMonaco, 103 mins Starring: Frank Grillo, Carmen Ejogo, Zoe Soul, Zach Gilford, Kiele Sanchez, Michael K. Williams

Review: Why 'The Purge: Anarchy' is this Summer's Essential Guilty Pleasure

Part thriller, part social critique, writer-director James DeMonaco's $3 million entry The Purge last year grossed more than $89 million worldwide - a sure s...

"The Purge: Anarchy" is a good deal bloodier, but also — gulp — a good deal better than its predecessor.

If you missed last year’s low-budget horror-thriller hit “The Purge,” don’t worry about feeling lost with this year’s new, awful “The Purge: Anar...

I’ve read ingredients labels that were scarier than “The Purge: Anarchy,” a plodding horror flick that mistakenly thinks it has big ideas. It’s 2023,...

In “The Purge: Anarchy,” Americans are again asked to spend a night running amok and killing.

In “The Purge: Anarchy,” Americans are again asked to spend a night running amok and killing.

The success of 2013's The Purge took everyone by surprise, including writer/director James DeMonaco, who was immediately called upon by distributor Universal...

Somehow, the fact that writer/director James DeMonaco is more ambitious with his sequel makes it that much more disappointing.

The clever conceit behind James DeMonaco’s 2013 sleeper hit “The Purge” was not that American society had resolved its crime/inequality/population prob...

Dir/scr: James DeMonaco. US. 2014. 103mins

Like the first film, the sequel “The Purge: Anarchy” is trash masking as social commentary,

The Purge imagined a near-future America where a regime called the New Founding Fathers ensured the nation’s utopian destiny by authorizing a night where a...

Returning director James DeMonaco flirts with messages about politics, society, and inequality, but they're all dazzle camouflage for a silly and squalid sho...

Class conflicts loom larger in this year's 'Purge,' which is also better than the original.

The title may imply heightened scope and stakes, but only the premise is out of order in "The Purge: Anarchy," a swiftly delivered, surprise-free sequel to 2...

It plays like it’s already a grindhouse classic.