The film shows Audiard to be the biggest beast in new French cinema.
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05/18/09
A Prophet (2009)
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Reviews Counted:10
Fresh:10
Rotten:0
Average Rating:7.9/10
Genre: Foreign Films
Reviews for A Prophet
1 - 10 (sorted by date; UK critics are listed first)
Top CriticA Prophet is an astonishingly detailed crime drama that could end up being this year's Gomorra, but although it's arguably more accessible.
05/18/09
Top CriticA Prophet is a compelling, forceful drama.
05/18/09
'A Prophet’ is never less than believable, thoughtful and, although very uncomfortable at points, incredibly entertaining.
05/18/09
Top CriticAudiard reaches a new level with this impeccably modulated prison drama. This is exhilarating filmmaking, a movie which instantly takes its place alongside the greats of the crime movie genre.
05/18/09
Top CriticA smart, stylishly-directed and compulsively watchable thriller.
05/17/09
Top CriticA Prophet works both as hard-edged, painstaking detailed social realism and as a compelling genre entertainment.
05/16/09
A beautifully made but not completely intellectually satisfying mirror on contemporary French upward mobility.
11/18/09
for all its gripping excitement as a thriller, and its grim realism as a sociopolitical exposé of life inside, A Prophet is also concerned with the mysterious processes of education, assimilation and transfiguration.
10/25/09
French master Jacques Audiard has challenged the thus-far mostly middling Cannes competition with a powerful prison drama that's an old-fashioned Bildungsroman in in-your-face, intensely realistic disguise.
05/16/09
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