'Primetime' Review: Robert Pattinson Powers A Chilling Media Nightmare

Review: ‘Primetime’ questions attracting ratings via trauma

If you decide to see Lance Oppenheim’s “Primetime,” it’s important to remember the title as you watch. Yes, this is a biopic of sorts about Chris Hansen and his work on “To Catch a Predator,” but it is more accurately about the quest for fame and using people’s trauma to attract ratings. True crime entertainment […]

'Primetime' Review: Fear and loathing on must-see TV

If the ‘20s are the manifestation of all that’s wrong with the United States, the Aughts were a preview of coming attractions. Things were falling apart, but the center held for another decade and change before the varnish painted over the neoliberal consensus fully wore off, when, in grief and fear, we squandered the opportunities presented to us by a unipolar world in which the US was in charge. Charlatans abounded in a make-believe fantasy of…

Robert Pattinson’s Latest Is a Sleazy Movie About a Sleazy Show. It Could Become Just as Much of a Sensation.

So you want to see the slimy, voyeuristic movie about the slimy, voyeuristic show. You see how this looks, right?

Regional Media Movie Review: Sean Kernan Reviews Prime Time - Regional Media News

Friday at the Movies: Sean Kernan Reviews Prime Time Friday at the Movies with Sean returns this week on the Hog Country Radio Network, featuring Regional Media film critic Sean Kernan and his review of Prime Time, starring Robert Pattinson. The film takes audiences behind the [...]

Movie Review: In 'Primetime,' a sinister shift in media, with a dazzling Robert Pattinson

Lance Oppenheim's directorial debut Primetime, starring Robert Pattinson as Chris Hansen, explores the moral implications of media-driven vigilantism in its portrayal of the To Catch a Predator era.

‘Primetime’ movie review: Robert Pattinson is fiendishly good in Lance Oppenheim’s vivisection of televised virtue

A sharp, stylish critique of televisual exploitation, powered by Pattinson’s chilling performance and a feverish, faux-vintage visuals.