Lance Oppenheim - 'Primetime' movie review

Unpopular Opinion: 'Primetime' Is Profoundly Boring

This is far from the consensus -- Robert Pattinson's Primetime rates 87 percent with critics on Rotten Tomatoes and 80 percent with audiences -- but I am absolutely baffled by its high marks. Thematically, it's interesting, at least in the... Read more...

Lance Oppenheim - 'Primetime' movie review

You see how this looks, right? The post ‘Primetime’ movie review: A sobering, darkly funny deep-dive into a digital hellscape first appeared on Far Out Magazine.

Review | ‘Primetime’ is not a biopic but an examination of our need for surveillance

Millions attended theaters the weekend of Sept. 25 for the release of “Primetime,” a film about  “To Catch a Predator’s” Chris Hansen, including the man himself.  Hansen, in a video posted on his official TikTok, walked the New York City sidewalk outside a Regal theater ahead of viewing the film, discussing his expected inaccuracy of...

'Primetime' Is Ready for Prime Time, But Maybe That’s About All

The first thing we see in Lance Oppenheim’s debut scripted feature Primetime is the same thing we’d see tuning into the wildly popular Dateline NBC

A24’s ‘Primetime’ makes a controversy look stylish

When the trailer was released for A24’s “Primetime,” directed by Lance Oppenheim, Robert Pattinson’s lead performance as Chris Hansen quickly became an internet phenomenon. Despite memes and users quoting his iconic lines such as, “You see how this looks, right?” the movie itself proves to be far more complex than any meme suggests. Based on real events surrounding Hansen’s “To Catch a Predator,” the film adds itself to the decades-long conversa…