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- Alex Bentley @ CultureMap Dallas
- Excerpt: The impact To Catch a Predator had on society despite the small number of episodes (20) it had is something worth exploring, as the documentary Predators did in 2025. But Primetime doesn’t get to the heart of the matter in a way that makes for necessary viewing, leaving it as a testament to the skills of its actors and not much else.
- Laura Clifford @ Reeling Reviews
- Excerpt: a stylishly nightmarish take…Featuring an uncanny-verging-on-demonic Robert Pattinson performance, a shockingly cutthroat Wever and a sweetly naive Skyler Gisondo…”Primetime” is a prime example of ends not justifying means.
- [New] | Sarah Gopaul @ Imagery at the Movies
- Excerpt: It’s possible filmmakers want to leave viewers to judge the ethics of “To Catch a Predator” for themselves. But the disconnected narrative feels like it’s only telling half the story, relying on great performances to try to hide the gaps.
- [New] | Mark Hobin @ Fast Film Reviews
- Excerpt: Recreates the spectacle of TV’s “To Catch a Predator” without looking beneath the surface of its own sideshow. Robert Pattinson is gloriously over-the-top, but his manic energy is wasted on a shallow film.
- Kristian Lin @ Fort Worth Weekly
- Excerpt: Male fragility is precisely where [Robert Pattinson] is strongest, and the latest piece of evidence is in Primetime, which gives him a role that suits him unlike any other.
- Mike McGranaghan @ The Aisle Seat
- Excerpt: Primetime is a disturbing portrait of what reality television can be.
- Matt Oakes @ Silver Screen Riot
- Excerpt: ‘Primetime’ transports us back to the early aughts, when Chris Hansen and the To Catch a Predator crew dominated the airwaves. Lance Oppenheim’s film digs into the nasty business behind catching predators and the questionable morals of Hansen’s methodology. But for all its visual confidence and a first-rate cast, it never feels all that revelatory or essential.
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