The horror throughout the film is dramatically connected to the struggles of poor and marginalized people.

"The First Purge" is an angry movie about our current political climate, angry about class discrepancy, and angry about the treatment of minorities.

A prequel to the 'Purge' series, and the first set in the inner city, is a crude exploitation film that still manages to pack a timely punch.

'The First Purge' brings you back to the horror franchise's beginning – and gets even more politically incendiary than before. Our review.

Staten Island becomes a metaphor for Trump-era oppression in Gerard McMurray's silly but meaningful prequel.

This prequel comes up empty when mining real-life tragedies as the backdrop for a summer movie.

'The First Purge' is a schlock horror about scary masks and glowing eyes, but it's also an incisive satire about losing our shared humanity.

The fourth chapter in the often inventive yet shoddily written franchise, where crime is legal once a year, delivers an unpleasant, visceral assault with uneven results

The First Purge comes second to the horror of real life: EW review

A story that could have been fueled by just anger and battles addresses the anxieties of today.

I feel pretty safe saying The First Purge isn’t going to be a big hit with Donald Trump’s base.With a script that feels more like an anti-Administration screed than a fully fleshedout film, this movie is so overtly “progressive”as to function...

Blumhouse's political-horror franchise gets a timely prequel

Check out Matt Donato's review of The First Purge, which brings James DeMonaco’s dystopian government slaughterhouse back to its roots.

The Purge prequel’s Trump jabs are thuddingly obvious—which isn’t necessarily a bad thing.

What is frustrating is that the social commentary portions of the movie are simplistic even by the low standards generally set by genre films.

It’s pretty good if you’re not averse to caricatures, predictable twists, and lots of familiar B-movie tropes.

If I’m being completely honest, The First Purge was a much better movie than it deserved to be. And what I mean by that is: being the fourth installment of a low budget thriller series, there’s an expectation that these movies will decline in quality the further they go on and basically be an unwatchable