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- 05:00 PM, Mar 29
thudding shocks and predictability dull its edgeby Leslie Felperin [Variety ]
The Purge is not a movie you want to assign a strict degree of logic toby Peter Howell [Toronto Star ]
it also unashamedly cribs from more disturbing films like Straw Dogs, Funny Games and A Clockwork Orangeby Claudia Puig [USA Today ]
"The Purge'' does deliver the gory genre goods in the highly predictable home stretch, and even returns to satire at the endby Lou Lumenick [New York Post ]
"The Purge" isn't exactly an evening's elevating entertainment, but it effectively creeps under the skinby Manohla Dargis [New York Times ]