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…
I grew up glued to the TV during the To Catch a Predator era — that weird, uncomfortable, can’t-look-away chapter of 2000s television that everyone had an opinion about. So when I heard A24 was turning that exact chunk of pop-culture history into a movie, my first reaction wasn’t “oh, another true-crime cash grab.” It…
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 are some movies where the theatrical release feels like the main event. Primetime is not quite one of them for me. The September 25, 2026 cinema release is obviously a big deal, especially after the film’s Venice premiere, but the question I keep seeing everywhere is much simpler: When can I actually watch this…
There are performances that quietly hold a movie together, and then there are performances that walk into a scene, start shouting, and completely change the temperature. Bokeem Woodbine’s Chief Cortland Gunn in Primetime belongs firmly in the second category. A24’s Primetime, directed by Lance Oppenheim, is one of those movies that seems almost designed to…
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…
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…