Predators

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Predators

Sep 2025

1h 36m

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To Catch a Predator was a popular television show designed to hunt down child predators and lure them to a film set, where they would be interviewed and eventually arrested. PREDATORS is a chilling, thought-provoking exploration of the scintillating rise and staggering fall of the show, and the world it helped create.

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Critics Consensus

A searing and intellectually rigorous documentary, Predators examines the motives behind public justice to reveal the disturbing ethical consequences of turning real life trauma into spectacle.

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Megan Nolan

New Statesman

Nov 18

A revelatory and brilliant film.

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Katie McCabe

Sight & Sound

Nov 14

This film’s strength is its hand-wringing uncertainty – Osit knows the end doesn’t always justify the murky means.

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Hannah Strong

Little White Lies

Nov 14

4/5

It’s uncomfortable and often disturbing viewing, but Osit’s unsentimental, self-critical and refreshingly thoughtful approach makes Predators one of the most valuable entries into a saturated genre, prioritising ethics over emotion.

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John Stark

Mac the Movie Guy

Dec 15

75/100

In order for there to be a predator, there has to be a victim. While the documentary isn’t sure who that might be, it does offer a compelling case of why entertainment and law enforcement shouldn’t go hand in hand.

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Johnny Loftus

Decider

Dec 13

The questioning tone Predators establishes is powerful, because it demands we as a culture slow down and consider how we're fueling our apparently insatiable true crime needs.

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Chuck Bowen

Style Weekly (Richmond, VA)

Dec 6

It’s the tone of "Predators" that is distinctively powerful, especially in the expanding realm of TV crime. The film is soulful, anguished.

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Erik

Oct 22

Good but a little self-important at the end and never really covered the deterrence angle

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Ed

Sep 29

It fills one in on what happened to the show To Catch a Predator. A few moments drag a bit too long but overall an opportunity to understand the dynamics of show.

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Jordan P

@Jochristine87 8h

Definitely feel like the people involved in making this show need their computers checked. They are trying to blame Chris Hansen for ruining child predators lives? What about the victims? Calling in inhumane and saying these predators should have the opportunity to be rehabilitated, you can’t rehabilitate a child predator! For David who said he never got what he wanted, a why for this happening to him. Some people are just evil disgusting humans and you can’t put a logical answer to an un logical situation. I don’t understand his reasoning in making this "documentary" 0/10

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Cristiana P

@Paris776 1d

I am speechless. This documentary made me sick. I felt like the whole purpose was for the audience feel sorry for these horrible people. I could t watch anymore. 🤮 🤮

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Brennan M.

@Brennan7 1d

The movie is a 90 minute waste of time. The director should probably be investigated. It’s a hour and half weird self righteous documentary that is trying to convince the audience to feel sympathy for literal sexual predators. DO NOT RECOMMEND WATCHING

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Denis S

@DenSuv 1d

A morally complex film. Weird that it is still a rare view into the subject. Like Homer, there are no good guys here. Hansen is, in his own morally superior vigilantes , a perpetrator of harm. Lack of understanding or prevention doesn’t help victims or institutions.

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Synopsis

To Catch a Predator was a popular television show designed to hunt down child predators and lure them to a film set, where they would be interviewed and eventually arrested. PREDATORS is a chilling, thought-provoking exploration of the scintillating rise and staggering fall of the show, and the world it helped create.

Director: David Osit
Producer: Jamie Gonçalves, Kellen Quinn, David Osit
Distributor: MTV Documentary Films
Production Co: Sweet Relief Productions
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 19, 2025, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 8, 2025
Runtime: 1h 36m

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