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Primetime

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In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history.

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Lance Oppenheim

Director

Robert Pattinson

Chris Hansen

Merritt Wever

Andie Bender

Skyler Gisondo

Dan Plumb

Phoebe Bridgers

Member of Hansen's Team

Matt Maher

Actor

Peter Bradshaw

Guardian

3 days ago

2/5

A strangely overwrought and heavy-footed drama-thriller, which for all its elaborate neon-lit atmosphere of noir danger isn’t at all sure what it wants to say about media or morality, or anything else.

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Raphael Abraham

Financial Times

3 days ago

3/5

A headline draw is the presence of Robert Pattinson, who duly delivers with a darkly mesmerising performance as the host of the hit mid-2000s NBC show To Catch a Predator...

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Robbie Collin

Daily Telegraph (UK)

3 days ago

5/5

Inspired by a 2007 magazine article about the series’ grisly conclusion the previous year, it is the best and nastiest film of its type since 2014’s Nightcrawler: it leaves its audience simultaneously appalled and thrilled, and thereby grubbily complicit.

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Sarah Manvel

Movie Marker

1 day ago

Mr Oppenheim and writer Ajon Singh have somehow looked into the heart of darkness without going blind, which means we can too. What Primetime really is about is how you go from being a good person into something else, step by step by step.

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Radhika Seth

Vogue

2 days ago

Despite having so much meaty real-life material to sink its teeth into, this is a movie that seems hesitant or unsure of what it wants to do with all those riches.

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Luis Martínez

El Mundo (Spain)

3 days ago

3/5

It irritates, confuses, disconcerts, overwhelms, terrifies, and more. [Full review in Spanish]

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Synopsis

In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history.

Director: Lance Oppenheim
Producer: Robert Pattinson, Brighton McCloskey, Lars Knudsen, Ari Aster, Brian Kavanaugh-Jones, Fred Berger, William Iannaccone
Screenwriter: Ajon Singh
Distributor: A24
Production Co: Range Media Partners, A24, Icki Eneo Arlo, Square Peg
Rating: R (Some Violent Content|Disturbing Sexual Material|Language|Graphic Nudity)
Genre: Drama, Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 25, 2026, Wide
Runtime: 1h 50m

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