There are movie controversies that feel manufactured by a studio marketing department, and then there are the ones where the person being portrayed is genuinely standing outside the whole thing saying, “Wait, that’s not what happened.” Primetime, the upcoming A24 film starring Robert Pattinson as To Catch a Predator host Chris Hansen, has landed firmly…
There is something deeply uncomfortable about Primetime, and honestly, that is probably what makes the movie work. A24’s 2026 psychological crime thriller does not simply bring back the world of To Catch a Predator and the internet-era legend of Chris Hansen. It drags the whole thing out from behind the meme, the famous catchphrases and…
Primetime is the kind of movie that leaves you staring at the credits for a few seconds because you’re not entirely sure what you just watched. Lance Oppenheim takes one of the strangest and ugliest chapters of reality television history and turns it into something that feels closer to a psychological horror movie than a…
There are movies where the “based on a true story” label feels like a marketing trick. Primetime is not one of them. The new A24 psychological thriller starring Robert Pattinson pulls from a very real and deeply uncomfortable chapter of American television history: the rise of To Catch a Predator, Chris Hansen, Dateline NBC, and…