I’ve been tracking this one since the first Venice whispers hit my feed, and I need to talk about it before the wide release turns everyone into a critic. Primetime, A24’s new psychological crime thriller starring Robert Pattinson, isn’t just “another true-crime adaptation.” It’s the kind of movie that makes you sit in your car…
There are certain movies that sound interesting because of the cast, others because of the director, and then there are movies like Primetime, where the entire idea feels slightly uncomfortable before you have even seen a frame. Robert Pattinson playing a fictionalized version of Chris Hansen, Lance Oppenheim making his narrative feature debut, A24 behind…
There are some movies that make you curious because of the cast. Others grab you because the subject matter is already uncomfortable enough to make you wonder how anyone could turn it into entertainment. Primetime somehow manages to do both. Lance Oppenheim’s upcoming A24 thriller takes one of the ugliest corners of early-2000s television culture…