Because crime in reality is something like a perpetual butterfly effect, kicking off cause-effect chains in every direction at once, modern crime movies are best and truest when they’re epic, and of course, the best of them are, from Jean-Pierre Melville’s Le Cercle Rouge to The Godfather to GoodFellas to Michael Mann’s Heat . A new French import (and Oscar-nominee) A Prophet takes on the hefty requirements, weighing at over 2.5 hours and hitting the ground in ultra-real style that leaves little to the imagination in terms of bottom-feeding smells, filth, violence and cold fear.
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On DVD: The French Crime-Epic Import of the Year
