‘Primetime’: What The Critics Are Saying About A24’s Chris Hansen Movie Starring Robert Pattinson

Reviews are rolling in for A24’s new movie Primetime, which is debuting at the Venice Film Festival today. Robert Pattinson stars in the Lance Oppenheim-directed movie about the controversial U.S. show To Catch a Predator, fronted by Chris Hansen, and how it ended badly. The true-crime program, part of Dateline NBC, ch

Hansen previously revealed that Pattinson would not have been his first choice to portray him in the film.

Merritt Wever, Skyler Gisondo and Phoebe Bridgers also star in Lance Oppenheim’s first narrative feature, revisiting the ethically muddy ‘Dateline NBC’ ratings phenomenon.

“Can you get tighter in on him?” Chris Hansen (Robert Pattinson) demands of the technician editing his latest “To Catch a Predator” segment. He has noticed that when his would-be pedophile prey finally spot him, stepping out of an upstairs bedroom or strolling through the kitchen door of the house designed to ensnare e

Robert Pattinson didn't plan to play Chris Hansen in “Primetime,” which debuts Saturday at the Venice Film Festival, but it became irresistible