"Delivering a performance that the director describes as a mixture of Jerry Maguire and Count Dracula, Robert Pattinson may finally be entering the Christian Bale period of his career, assuming the Academy responds to such dark material (and they didn’t take to 2014’s Nightcrawler, perhaps the closest recent comparison). And though it’s a period film, Primetime really does resound with today’s world, at a time when countries all over the world are turning persecution into sport, with no thought of judge or jury. Most of all, though, it’s a stylish, almost Shakespearean meditation on ambition, that applies to online wrong’uns as much as the media — be careful what you wish for." — Deadline