The Purge (2018)
USA | Release Date: September 4, 2018
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Mixed or average reviews based on 13 Critic Reviews
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3
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SalonMelanie McFarlandSep 4, 2018
Season 1 Review: USA and DeMonaco have somehow found a way to stretch out these tales over 10 episodes, which is about six more than feels sustainable. ... Left in its place is a shallow festival of violence and bloodshed, and not very artful demonstrations of either. Read full review
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Uncle BarkyEd BarkAug 30, 2018
Season 1 Review: The Purge comes to television at exactly the wrong time. Not that there’s really a right time. The fact that it’s also clumsily made and rife with mediocre performances seems almost beside the point in the context of how pointless this thing is in the first place. Read full review
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Reason.comGlenn GarvinSep 22, 2018
Season 1 Review: The Purge remains essentially a snuff film. Call me crazy, but it just may turn out that 10 hours of gory slaughter unconstrained by even the vaguest intellectual or moral framework is going to be irredeemable crap no matter how many pretty sociopolitical ribbons you put on it. Call it, I dunno, grade-Z nihilism. Read full review
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