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Predators (2025)
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David Osit examines To Catch a Predator and the machinery that turned sting operations into compulsive television. The unfolding inquiry asks why exposure feels satisfying and whose interests a filmed confrontation serves. That makes this 2025 documentary a useful corrective inside a list about documentary suspense: it studies the appetite the list itself might encourage. Child sexual exploitation, humiliation and the consequences of public accusation make the material demanding, even when the editing draws you forward.
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In the mid-aughts, Dateline NBC's To Catch a Predator drew millions of weekly viewers to watch sting operations: men planning to meet minors for sex would instead be confronted by polished host Chris Hansen, then by the police — all on hidden camera.