Over its multi-year run as part of NBC’s Dateline franchise, To Catch a Predator wasn’t impervious to criticism or lawsuits, but it was surely insulated.

Sure, you might say, every episode was a carefully orchestrated piece of entrapment in which the relationship between journalists and law enforcement became blurred in a way that the relationship between journalists and law enforcement should never become blurred.

“What, are you in favor of sexual predators?” fans of the show would then reply

It’s hard to have a nuanced conversation from there.

In his new Sundance-premiering documentary Predators, director David Osit takes advantage of the 17+ years since To Catch a Predator ended to attempt to have those conversations.

The result is a 96-minute film that some people will find disappoining, when what it’s actually about is disappointment, because the temptation when you sit down to watch Predators is to demand...