New in Theaters: ‘The Purge: Anarchy’ Takes Aim at the One Percent

In ‘The Purge: Anarchy’ all crime is legal for one annual twelve-hour free-for-all (Universal Pictures)

Just last year, a little sci-fi/horror film calledThe Purge lit up theaters with its canny blend of exploitationthriller joltsand subversive agitprop. Now comes the inevitable sequel, which ramps up the class-conscious revolutionary rhetoric in an expanded story about a near-future America where one night a year all crime is legal for 12 hours.

The Purge: Anarchyopens this Friday everywhere....