Primetime

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Directed by: Lance Oppenheim
Overview
In 2006, To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen sets out to make television history. When a high stakes operation goes fatally wrong, his veneered dream of fame curdles into a nightmare of performative justice.
Reviews (4)
TheFilmCritics.org (Rated: 4)
A true-crime story this inherently bizarre should not require much embellishment, yet Primetime spends so much energy dressing itself up that the actual story gets buried underneath the filmmaking. What could have been a sharp, uncomfortable examination of television, celebrity, and the ethics of ...
Brent Marchant (Rated: 8)
It’s been said that we often become what we concentrate upon. That’s ironic, because frequently this results in the creation of that which we’re purposely trying to avoid. And, in this third feature outing from director Lance Oppenheim, that’s precisely what happens to its high-profile protagonist, ...
GenerationofSwine (Rated: 1)
What I learned from Primetime is that catching child predators is "right wing" and "egotistical" and "bad." Which about sums up why all the heavily leftwing political injections makes movies suck. Sort of lost the plot when you spend an entire movie making the point that the dude who was CATCHING CH...
CinemaSerf (Rated: 7)
I'm not really much of a fan of R Patz, but this might be his best effort since "The Lighthouse" (2019). Here, he's a real-life television host who fronts a show that exposes older men who have a penchant for young teens. These men are entrapped by an actor on social media and then lured to an home ...
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