Lance Oppenheim’s slick satire Primetime is in theatres this weekend, starring Robert Pattinson in a performance of the year. Pattinson plays Chris Hansen, the real-life NBC journalist whose vigilante-tinged series, To Catch a Predator, marked a turning point in America’s “gotcha” TV culture. Writes critic Barry Hertz: “Primetime is not an easy film, but it is an essential one.”

And don’t miss the new rich-people thriller The Perfect Lie on Netflix, the seven-part series from the Netherlands that feels like a dubbed mashup up of The Perfect Couple and Big Little Lies.

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