Stars: Bérénice Bejo, Nassim Lyes, Léa Léviant, Anaïs Parello, Anne Marivin | Written by Xavier Gens, Yannick Dahan, Maud Heywang | Directed by Xavier Gens

With its deceptively simple shark-in-Paris set-up, you could be thinking that Under Paris (which is currently streaming on Netflix), was the sort of cheap-looking sharksploitation nonsense that the SyFy channel put out on a regular basis. Not a bit of it. Directed by Xavier Gens (Lupin), it’s a terrific shark-based thriller that has a lot of gory fun with its premise and even delivers a few surprises. Netflix really missed a trick by not calling it Shark de Triomphe though..

Under Paris begins with a prologue in which expert shark researcher Sophia (Bérénice Bejo) has her entire team -including her husband- eaten by a giant shark named Lilith, while on a shark-tagging trip in the heavily polluted Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Three years later and the...