Primetime Review: Robert Pattinson Shines as Chris Hansen in A24 Movie
The review says Pattinson fully transforms into Hansen as the film turns the sting-show format into a stylized look at TV spectacle.
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Primetime Review: Take a Seat for the Best Biopic in Years
Few personalities of the 20th and 21st centuries have encapsulated the cultural zeitgeist like predator catcher Chris Hansen. For anyone unfamiliar with his reign over network television, look no further than Lance Oppenheim’s Primetime, an inventive, thoughtful, intense, and funny dissection of a complicated media icon. Marking Oppenheim’s jump from acclaimed documentaries into narrative features, […] This post belongs to FandomWire and first a…
"For my generation, he is the new Jack Nicholson, every time surprising." To say this by Robert Pattinson is Lance Oppenheim, director of his latest film, Primetime. The film tells the story of Chris Hansen, the journalist and conductor who in 2004 created To Catch in Predator, a television program in which young lurers pretended to be minors to attract men who wanted to have sex with very young boys, then unmasking them in front of the cameras …
‘Primetime’ review: No wonder Chris Hansen is furious
Should Chris Hansen ever watch the trippy movie “Primetime,” about the rise and fall of his Dateline NBC series “To Catch a Predator” during the mid-aughts, I doubt he’ll be any less miffed by the end than he reportedly has been in the weeks since the trailer dropped. Master of disguise Robert Pattinson plays the host, who turned confronting and locking up pervs into TV popcorn entertainment, as ruthlessly ambitious and freakishly intense. A sna…
Primetime Review: Robert Pattinson Shines as Chris Hansen in A24 Movie
It’s fascinating to watch a movie dramatize a television show that was already so theatrical in its own right. Primetime takes the true story of Chris Hansen and To Catch a Predator and turns it into a deeply stylized, often unsettling examination of the man behind one of the most recognizable television franchises of the […] The post Primetime Review: Robert Pattinson Shines as Chris Hansen in A24 Movie appeared first on ComingSoon.net - Movie …
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