Predators

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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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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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Matt Zoller Seitz

RogerEbert.com

In any case, the movie is bound to stimulate conversation, and probably some arguments as well—and since Osit has said that was his goal, it should be considered a success.

Rated: 3/4

Sep 28, 2025

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Amy Nicholson

Los Angeles Times

Tonally, this steady and powerful film is everything the original program wasn’t: hesitant, sorrowful and compassionate for every human being onscreen.

Sep 26, 2025

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Ben Kenigsberg

New York Times

What gives the documentary an added edge is that the director implicates himself in the proceedings.

Sep 19, 2025

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Morgan Rojas

Cinemacy

'Predators' challenges us to examine an uncomfortable reality, revealing that good vs evil isn't so black and white.

Sep 29, 2025

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Dennis Harvey

48 Hills

Predators is powerful, troubling stuff, as discomfiting as any film I’ve seen this year.

Sep 26, 2025

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Jason Delgado

Film Threat

All in all, it’s an effective meditation on the show and the aftermath of it.

Rated: 7.5/10

Sep 22, 2025

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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
Runtime: 1h 36m