Predators

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Predators

2025

1h 36m

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To Catch a Predator was a popular television show designed to hunt down child predators and lure them to a film set, where they would be interviewed and eventually arrested. PREDATORS is a chilling, thought-provoking exploration of the scintillating rise and staggering fall of the show, and the world it helped create.

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A searing and intellectually rigorous documentary, Predators examines the motives behind public justice to reveal the disturbing ethical consequences of turning real life trauma into spectacle.

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Christy Lemire

FilmWeek (LAist)

Dec 31

This is so eye-opening and caused me to really think differently about this show.

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Sophie Gilbert

The Atlantic

Dec 29

For how it illuminates a truly strange and callous moment in culture, it’s one of the best documentaries of the year.

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Megan Nolan

New Statesman

Nov 18

A revelatory and brilliant film.

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Jared Mobarak

Hey, Have You Seen ...?

Mar 12

7/10

It pulls the curtain on the artifice and shows the unforgivable cost to what Hansen did and how [he was] allowed to do it. This subject is much bigger than [that], though, so the film plays like more of a table-turned "gotcha" moment of its own.

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Joe Lipsett

Murder Made Fiction Podcast - Bloody Disgusting

Feb 23

4/5

A fine tuned, extremely relevant dissection of the purported good that shows such as To Catch A Predator claim to offer. The doc is extremely self-reflexive about its own goals, which is a welcome change from other true crime texts

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Ian Bunting

Daily Record (UK)

Jan 17

Predators is as gripping as its subject matter - with no easy answers or ideologies thrust upon you - and whether you watched To Catch A Predator or not, it will grab your attention throughout.

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Erik

Oct 22

Good but a little self-important at the end and never really covered the deterrence angle

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Ed

Sep 29

It fills one in on what happened to the show To Catch a Predator. A few moments drag a bit too long but overall an opportunity to understand the dynamics of show.

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Santiago Agustin G

@RT40469477 Mar 11

40 minutes in and you can tell that these people are "sympathetic" towards the predators. The director might be a victim , but it does not make any sense that a "victim" is so passionate about helping predators and so angry at Chris.

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Nick G.

@nickg1234 Feb 25

A proper look down the nose and finger wag at the plebians who enjoy seeing a little justice in an unjust world.

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Dara R

@D_BeBored Feb 16

Director tries to sooth his past trauma of SA by making it chris Hansen's problem for not figuring out for him why child predators do what they do. As if there's an excuse or cure for it, he tries to sympathize with predators to cope with his own issues. Fyi, that DA was found to have a ton of terrible pics on his computer, he offed himself cause he got caught not cause of chris hansen. And if all the predators aired he focused on the one 18 yrs old who they redacted from later episodes 🤷🏽‍♀️

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ghostrider5393 T

@BettyS Feb 16

I was honestly very intrigued and excited to watch. Took about 20 mins to realize this was NOT the documentary for me. Id rather die than feel bad for any of these men. If you support child rapists this is the movie for you.

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Synopsis

To Catch a Predator was a popular television show designed to hunt down child predators and lure them to a film set, where they would be interviewed and eventually arrested. PREDATORS is a chilling, thought-provoking exploration of the scintillating rise and staggering fall of the show, and the world it helped create.

Director: David Osit
Producer: Jamie Gonçalves, Kellen Quinn, David Osit
Distributor: MTV Documentary Films
Production Co: Sweet Relief Productions
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: English
Release Date (Theaters): Sep 19, 2025, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 8, 2025
Runtime: 1h 36m

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