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Predators

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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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Ty Burr Ty Burr's Watch List (Substack) Sep 29, 2026
3.5/4
Predators is still a far more nuanced take on a difficult subject than “To Catch a Predator” or “Primetime.” Go to Full Review
Christy Lemire FilmWeek (LAist) Dec 31, 2025
This is so eye-opening and caused me to really think differently about this show. Go to Full Review
Sophie Gilbert The Atlantic Dec 29, 2025
For how it illuminates a truly strange and callous moment in culture, it’s one of the best documentaries of the year. Go to Full Review
Jared Mobarak Hey, Have You Seen ...? Mar 12, 2026
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. Go to Full Review
Joe Lipsett Murder Made Fiction Podcast - Bloody Disgusting Feb 23, 2026
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 Go to Full Review
Ian Bunting Daily Record (UK) Jan 17, 2026
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. Go to Full Review
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Erik Oct 22, 2025 Good but a little self-important at the end and never really covered the deterrence angle See more Ed Sep 29, 2025 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. See more not I @silvara 2 days ago Unbalanced - only cherrypicks a couple of controversial(ish) cases of these predators. Pedophiles, whether they have 1 or 100 victims, or even if they try and fail, are still predatory. Who cares if their OWN behavior ruins their lives when their actions will forever mar the lives of their victims? Even the worst outcomes are literally the consequences of their own actions. One can only be entrapped if the end goal is desirable to them. You may be able to entice a decent person into stealing, but it would be impossible to entice a decent person to sexually assault a child. The fact that this has such good ratings is proof of this country's pedophilic rape culture. I hope someone is keeping an eye on the creator of this movie - his empathy toward predators is suspect. See more Yaya W @YayaW 2 days ago The person who made this film DEFINITELY needs his hard drives checked. This documentary wants to make the PREDATORS who thought they were talking to CHILDREN, into the victims. This documentary is DISGUSTING in my opinion. I couldn't stomach watching it as it showed VERY early on they were headed that direction. To act like these ADULTS who were even talking like that to who they believed were children are victims is disturbing. To Catch A Predator was a show we obviously needed and still need, due to the fact that this country is in the state it's in now. These PREDATORS weren't forced to talk to underage victims or to go visit them. So just think what if there wasn't a camera crew and police there to arrest these individuals?? The children they were going to visit would be real children abused by these grown PREDATORS who KNEW EXACTLY why they were going. Paramount and ANY platform showing this needs at least a disclaimer saying they support criminals and warning the audience. See more Claire B @RT27382872 6 days ago Extremely worrisome take on the journalism that exposed so many predators. At the end of the day there is no room for empathy or for two things to be true at the same time. If these individuals’ lives were ruined, they did that entirely on their own. Had this show not happened it would have likely been their lives and an innocent child’s life that was ruined forever. A take like this is dangerous and disrespectful to victims like myself. These men make choices. They chose to go into the chat rooms. They chose to research chat rooms that allowed this behaviour and they chose to act and say what they wanted. There is only room for accountability and making any sort of expectation of your audience to have compassion or empathy for these individuals is wild. You then remove their responsibility and framed it as to make you make your audience see them as victims. Dangerous and horrendous film making. Do better See more M. C @RT41253261 Oct 3, 2026 The problem with this documentary is that it criticises To Catch a Predator for presenting events through the producers’ and Chris Hansen’s point of view through editing and production , but then does the same using framing to encourage sympathy for the people caught and clearly guides you towards its own conclusion. It’s basically the other side of the same coin. It also feels hypocritical when it shows the predators’ faces and reminds us 20 or 30 years later who they are and why their lives were ruined. To send a message of reasonable anonymity to these men for the crime Ultimately, I don’t feel bad for anyone caught on the show. The potential harm they could have caused others far outweighs the public humiliation they experienced. Hansen seems self-obsessed, but that isn’t a crime. See more Read all reviews
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Movie Info

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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