Summary

From Alex Gibney’s mammoth study of the rise of X proprietor Elon Musk to Danny Boyle’s dramatization of the birth of British tabloid newspaper The Sun, this year’s Venice Film festival featured a lot of movies speculating on the past, present and future of the media. None did it quite as disturbingly, however, as Lance Oppenheim ’s Primetime , starring Robert Pattinson as Chris Hansen, one of the earliest stars of the early-21st-century reality-TV revolution.

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