Philip Bradshaw of the Guardian wrote that French director Jacques Audiard’s A Prophet is “a blisteringly powerful prison-gangster… It comports itself like a modern classic from the very first frames, instantly hitting its massively confident stride. This is the work of the rarest kind of film-maker, the kind who knows precisely what he is doing and where he is going. The film’s every effect is entirely intentional.” Considered by some as one of the best crime films of all time, this is an arresting, gripping, violent French gangster pic for the ages.