--- title: "Lupin" year: 2021 kind: "series" canonical: "https://film.one/tv/lupin" fi1m_id: "lupin" imdb_id: "tt2531336" tmdb_id: 96677 wikidata_id: "Q104082429" fi1m_score: 73 critics_score: 77 critics_reviews: 10 published: "2026-10-07T19:20:23.639002+00:00" updated: "2026-10-07T19:20:42.357527+00:00" region: "US" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Lupin (2021) Created by George Kay, François Uzan, Marie Roussin, Florent Meyer, Tigran Rosine · MPA TV-MA · Crime, Drama, Mystery ## Identity Lupin - **Canonical:** https://film.one/tv/lupin - **Type:** Series - **Fi1m ID:** lupin - **IMDb ID:** tt2531336 - **TMDB ID:** 96677 - **Wikidata ID:** Q104082429 - **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2531336/, https://www.themoviedb.org/tv/96677, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q104082429 **Fi1m score: 73** · Critics 77 from 10 reviews *In a sentence:* Omar Sy robs the Louvre in cleaner’s overalls and Paris lets him, because have you seen him > Omar Sy is the whole case for watching this Paris heist series, and he is a strong one. The capers are neatly built and the city looks expensive; the revenge story around them is thinner than the tricks and gets thinner as it goes. ## Synopsis Paris, now. Assane Diop (Omar Sy) is a thief who grew up on Maurice Leblanc’s Arsène Lupin stories and uses them as a manual. Twenty-five years ago his father, a chauffeur to a wealthy family, was accused of stealing a necklace that belonged to Marie Antoinette and died in prison. Now the necklace has resurfaced and is to be auctioned at the Louvre, where a museum guide (Charlotte Saliou) walks tour groups past its case. Assane, in debt to Vincent Morville (Grégoire Colin), offers to settle it with a plan: Vincent Morville’s men Kevin (Kamel Guenfoud) and Rudy (Arthur Choisnet) will lift the necklace from the auction while Assane walks the galleries in a cleaner’s overalls. He has a son he keeps letting down. He wants the necklace, and he wants to know who put his father away. ## Review Arsène Lupin, Maurice Leblanc’s gentleman thief, has been filmed many times. The idea here is better: leave him on the page and give the books to a modern Parisian who reads them as a manual. Assane Diop (Omar Sy) is the son of a chauffeur who was accused of stealing a necklace from the family he drove for and died in prison, leaving the boy a copy of Leblanc. George Kay and François Uzan, who created the series with three others and wrote much of it, build each case on one of Leblanc’s tricks and tell you afterwards which one it was. It is good, and if heists are yours it is worth your evening. The first case, in the Louvre, is worth it on its own. Assane owes money to Vincent Morville (Grégoire Colin) and pays him with a plan: Vincent’s men Kevin (Kamel Guenfoud) and Rudy (Arthur Choisnet) will lift the necklace from the auction while Assane pushes a cleaner’s cart through the galleries. The show runs the robbery once, then rewinds and runs it again with the parts we were not shown. We grinned through all of it, and the grin survived the second pass, which is where you notice the first did not quite add up. The cart and the overalls are also the show’s sharpest point about race, made without a speech: a Black man in a uniform is the most invisible thing in a French museum, and Assane knows it. Sy is the reason to watch. He is tall and moves like a man who enjoys being looked at, and he plays Assane as someone who can switch being noticed off and on. The voices change, the walks change, the grin does not. When the series cuts back to the boy and his father, a book pushed across a table, Sy carries that too, and it moved us more than a heist show has a right to. The grown Assane is a grieving son doing magic tricks, and Sy lets you see both at once. Three cinematographers, Antony Diaz, Martial Schmeltz and Christophe Nuyens, share the credit and settle on one look: Paris clean and expensive, the Louvre by night, the Seine with the lights on, and later the chalk cliffs at Étretat, where Leblanc lived. Mathieu Lamboley’s score is brisk, strings over a plucked bass that announce a trick is under way before the camera has shown you one. Six directors are credited, Louis Leterrier, Marcela Said and Xavier Gens among them, and the heists stay clear across all of them. We always know where the necklace is, which is more than most heist films manage. The trouble is everything around the tricks. The police cannot find a thief that tall working in plain sight, and the series asks us to accept this more often than it earns. In the back half of the first ten episodes the twists arrive one an episode, a kidnapping, a double-cross, a new account of who betrayed whom, and each makes the scene before it count for less. By the eighth we were tired, and then annoyed that a show this nimble had chosen to be exhausting. The third run, seven episodes first shown on 5 October 2023, goes further back into Assane’s family and slows down to do it. Sy is given heavier scenes and carries them. The reveals still come one an episode, but the people on screen have more to lose, so they land harder. Leblanc’s stories are short, and this is not. [*Hustle*](https://film.one/film/hustle) and *Ocean’s Eleven* understood that a con is a pleasure of about forty minutes and nobody needs avenging at the end of it. *Lupin* wants the forty-minute pleasure and a twenty-five-year grievance and does not quite hold both. Most critics have been warmer than we are, and the gap is small: they forgive the plotting for Sy’s sake, and so do we, up to a point. Watch it in French with the subtitles on. A dubbed version exists, and it takes away what Sy does with his voice, which is about half of what he does. Two episodes a night is right; the tricks are better than the twists, and in pairs you get more of the one than the other. *Fi1m score 73, published 7 October 2026.* ## What the critics say Most critics like Lupin and the agreement is close. Eight of ten reviews are positive, none negative, and nearly every one of them lands on the same name: Omar Sy, whose swagger and charm as Assane Diop carry scene after scene. The reviews call the series stylish, propulsive and entertaining, and several say the heists work because the writing gives the schemes an emotional footing in Assane’s history and in a serious treatment of racism. The i Paper finds the third season gains depth from his family backstory. The reservations cluster around plot. Even the warm reviews admit the logic skips steps, and the two mixed notices, from The Hollywood Reporter and IndieWire, go further: the former doubts whether there is enough substance to sustain the show, the latter finds the second part weighed down by its sprawling revenge story and too many twists. The Ringer adds that the secondary characters are thin. Nobody disputes the pleasure. ## Straight answers **Is Lupin worth watching?** *Lupin* is worth watching for anyone who likes a heist told cleanly, and we scored it 73. Omar Sy carries it, switching between invisible and unmissable, and the Louvre robbery in the first episode is the best thing in it. The revenge plot around the tricks gets thinner and more exhausting as the twists pile up. **How long is Lupin, and what is it rated?** *Lupin* is rated TV-MA by the MPA in the US. It is a crime and drama series. **Where can I watch Lupin in the US?** *Lupin* is streaming on Netflix in the US. Availability is checked daily; the links above go straight to each service. **How violent or frightening is Lupin, and is it suitable for children?** *Lupin* is a 15 in the UK and TV-MA in the US, so it is not for children, though it is a heist series rather than a frightening one. The review notes a kidnapping and double-crosses in the later episodes, but the pleasure is in the tricks, not the threat. Older teenagers who enjoy capers will be fine. **How does Lupin compare to Ocean's Eleven?** *Lupin* and [*Ocean's Eleven*](https://film.one/film/oceans-eleven) share the same pleasure: show the robbery, then rewind and show what you missed. The film is the tighter of the two, a con that knows it only needs about two hours and no grievance to settle, and its explanations hold up on the second look. *Lupin* adds a twenty-five-year revenge story and Omar Sy's grieving son, which gives it more feeling but a plot that sags. **What should I watch after Lupin?** After *Lupin*, try [*Ocean's Eleven*](https://film.one/film/oceans-eleven) (2001, Fi1m 80): The same show-the-trick-then-rewind pleasure, and the explanations hold up afterwards. Then [*Hustle*](https://film.one/film/kung-fu-hustle) (2004, Fi1m 83): London con artists, one job an episode, nobody carrying a grudge for twenty-five years; and [*Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro*](https://film.one/film/the-castle-of-cagliostro) (1979, Fi1m 80): Miyazaki’s animated take on Leblanc’s grandson thief; lighter, faster and sweeter than this. ### Reviews we read (10) - **Radio Times**, Morgan Jeffery (90/100, inferred): The review presents Part 2 as a stylish, irresistible crime caper despite some lapses in logic. It singles out Omar Sy’s swaggering charisma as the show’s greatest strength. [Read](https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/lupin-part-2-review-netflix/) - **The i Paper**, Gerard Gilbert (85/100, inferred): Gilbert finds the third season slick, entertaining and still full of escapist appeal. He praises its added depth from exploring Assane’s backstory and family history. [Read](https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/lupin-season-3-netflix-review-slick-crime-drama-2662248) - **Variety**, Daniel D'Addario (82/100, inferred): The critic finds the series propulsive, cleverly made, and assuredly entertaining. He especially praises Omar Sy’s gritty performance and the emotional grounding that gives the heists added impact. [Read](https://variety.com/2021/tv/reviews/lupin-omar-sy-1234881315/) - **Evening Standard**, Susannah Butter (4/5): Butter finds the second part compelling, fast-paced and enjoyably silly, while praising its balance of entertaining twists and a serious treatment of racism. She singles out Omar Sy’s magnetic performance and the show’s lively Paris setting, though some plot details do not add up. [Read](https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/tvfilm/lupin-part-season-2-review-netflix-b939788.html) - **The Guardian**, Euan Ferguson (75/100, inferred): Ferguson finds Lupin stylish, nuanced and very good. He especially praises Omar Sy, who carries every scene as Assane Diop. [Read](https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/jan/31/lupin-review-call-my-agent-4-all-the-sins-trump-show-downfall) - **The Hollywood Reporter**, Daniel Fienberg (65/100, inferred): Fienberg finds Part 2 entertaining and stylish, though its substance and sustainability are less convincing. He especially praises Omar Sy’s star power and versatility, while criticizing the plot’s skipped logical steps. [Read](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-reviews/lupin-part-2-1234963144/) - **IndieWire**, Steve Greene (C+): The review finds Part 2 weighed down by its sprawling revenge plot and excessive twists. It praises Omar Sy’s charismatic performance, which keeps the series engaging despite those problems. [Read](https://www.indiewire.com/criticism/shows/lupin-part-2-review-netflix-omar-sy-1234644042/) - **NME** (85/100, inferred): The critic calls Part 2 another triumph and says the series remains exceptionally entertaining. They single out the clever writing, which makes Assane’s elaborate schemes thrilling without tipping into implausibility. [Read](https://www.nme.com/reviews/tv-reviews/lupin-part-2-review-netflix-2963829) - **The Ringer**, Micah Peters (75/100, inferred): Peters finds the series an irresistible, entertaining heist, while noting that its secondary characters and plots are underdeveloped. He especially praises Omar Sy’s magnetic, almost musical performance as Assane. [Read](https://www.theringer.com/2021/01/14/tv/lupin-netflix-season-1-review) - **Paste**, Shane Ryan (70/100, inferred): Ryan finds the series a fun, compelling guilty pleasure, though its implausible plotting limits its ambitions. He praises the thrilling, artfully executed deceptions and the pleasure of watching a nonviolent thief outsmart authorities. [Read](https://www.pastemagazine.com/tv/lupin/lupin-review) ## Details - **Created by:** George Kay, François Uzan, Marie Roussin, Florent Meyer, Tigran Rosine - **Creator:** George Kay, François Uzan, Marie Roussin, Florent Meyer, Tigran Rosine - **Director:** Ludovic Bernard, Hugo Gélin, Xavier Gens, Louis Leterrier, Daniel Grou, Marcela Said - **Screenplay:** George Kay, François Uzan, Adam Usden, Tony Saint, Eliane Montane, Kam Odedra, Soiliho Bodin, Steve Bailie, Sumerah Srivastav, Camille Couasse, Nicolas Clément - **Story:** François Uzan, George Kay, Tony Saint, Eliane Montane, Anne Cissé - **Cinematography:** Christophe Nuyens, Antony Diaz, Martial Schmeltz - **Music:** Mathieu Lamboley - **Producer:** Isabelle Degeorges, Sidonie Dumas, Nathan Franck - **Cast:** Omar Sy as Assane Diop; Kamel Guenfoud as Kevin; Grégoire Colin as Vincent Morville; Arthur Choisnet as Rudy; Saïd Benchnafa as Bogdan; Mohamed Nouar as Ibrahim; Charlotte Saliou as Louvre Museum Guide; Ary Gabison as Louvre Barrier Security Guard - **Certificate (MPA):** TV-MA - **Release (the US):** 8 January 2021 - **Genres:** Crime, Drama, Mystery - **Trailer:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga0iTWXCGa0 ## Where to watch in the US - Netflix: streaming *Checked 2026-10-07.* Also available in: AE, AR, AT, AU, AZ, BE, BG, BR, CA, CH, CL, CO, CZ, DE, DK, EC, EE, ES, FI, FR, GB, GR, HK, HR, HU, ID, IE, IL, IN, IS, IT, JP, KR, LT, MX, MY, NL, NO, NZ, PA, PE, PH, PL, PT, RO, RS, SE, SG, SI, SK, TH, TR, UA, US, VN, ZA. Add `?region=XX` to this URL for another country. ## If you liked this - *Rififi* (1955): Jules Dassin’s Paris jewel heist, half an hour of it in total silence. - *Ocean's Eleven* (2001), Fi1m 80: The same show-the-trick-then-rewind pleasure, and the explanations hold up afterwards. — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/film/oceans-eleven.md) - *Hustle* (2004), Fi1m 83: London con artists, one job an episode, nobody carrying a grudge for twenty-five years. — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/film/kung-fu-hustle.md) - *Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro* (1979), Fi1m 80: Miyazaki’s animated take on Leblanc’s grandson thief; lighter, faster and sweeter than this. — [Fi1m page](https://film.one/film/the-castle-of-cagliostro.md) - *Untouchable* (2011): Omar Sy before the heists, and the charm already doing most of the work. --- © Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL. 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