Predators

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Predators

2025

1h 39m

Documentary

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Exploring the controversial NBC series that caught potential child predators in sting operations, leading to arrests, and its eventual cancellation.

Liz Shannon Miller

Consequence

The core question Predators aims to explore isn't the motivations of the original men who were caught in Hansen's trap — it's why the show was fascinating viewing for so many people.

Rated: B

Feb 3, 2025

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Derek Smith

Slant Magazine

David Osit’s trenchant documentary recognizes that To Catch a Predator sold humiliation as entertainment in the guise of legitimizing law-and-order punitivism.

Rated: 3.5/4

Jan 31, 2025

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David Fear

Rolling Stone

The movie doesn’t end with answers, only more dangling questions. It’s still an absolutely fascinating watch.

Jan 27, 2025

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Alan Zilberman

Washington City Paper

A mix of media critique and biography, Predators is the kind of documentary that forces a realignment of our basic assumptions about why we valued the series.

Jun 23, 2025

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Scott Phillips

Forbes

... expect this documentary to have legs when awards season rolls around in the fall.

Jun 22, 2025

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Stephen Silver

The SS Ben Hecht

A thought-provoking but sometimes frustrating documentary which is a fascinating exercise, but makes some mistakes, both in leaving certain questions unanswered, and not making the strongest possible case against the show.

Apr 25, 2025

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Synopsis

Exploring the controversial NBC series that caught potential child predators in sting operations, leading to arrests, and its eventual cancellation.

Director: David Osit
Producer: Jamie Gonçalves, Kellen Quinn, David Osit
Production Co: Sweet Relief Productions, Rosewater Pictures
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Runtime: 1h 39m