Oxygen’s relevance strikes like lightning in a year when time is measured less by Earth’s tilt and more by first wave, second wave, red phase, yellow phase; not by time passing daily, but by how much danger remains in the room.

| Jan 8, 2024

Starring a superb Mélanie Laurent, Alexandre Aja’s Oxygen is both a claustrophobic survival thriller and an introspective drama about memory, identity, and the ethics of scientific advancement.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 15, 2023

Oxygen is a phenomenal example of one-location filmmaking done right. Brutal moral dilemmas, surprising discoveries about the mysterious protagonist, and a fantastic one-woman show from Mélanie Laurent keep the slow, flashback-heavy narrative engrossing.

| Original Score: A- | Jul 24, 2023

I don’t want Aja to stop making his trademark ultraviolent schlock-horrors. But as a detour, Oxygen is definitely a refreshing and welcome change.

| Jul 21, 2023

Oxygen isn’t really a horror film, but it does deliver a similar case of uneasiness.

| Original Score: B- | May 2, 2023

This sci-fi gem is incredibly tense.

| Apr 5, 2023

As the tension build to excruciating levels at the climax, Oxygen will have viewers so caught up in the action they will need to check they are still breathing.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Nov 12, 2022

A breathless thriller that doesn’t let up from minute one until the very end.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Sep 22, 2022

An audacious and absorbing slice of genre entertainment.

| Original Score: 4.5/5 | Aug 17, 2022

With a script that thoughtfully integrates the story's twists and turns for maximum emotional impact and a central performance that places us right in the thick of our protagonist's turmoil, "Oxygen" is genre filmmaking at its finest.

| Original Score: 7/10 | Jul 14, 2022

It is clear that there is inspiration behind the project with not a single piece of the feature simply going through the motions, but due to one major misfire - in this case the screenplay - the entire film falls apart on a weak foundation.

| Original Score: C | Feb 15, 2022

Oxygen is entertaining for its duration, though not without moments of questionable credibility for even casual sci-fi aficionados.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Feb 12, 2022

There's a few plot issues that may prove troublesome for some (involving telephone signals), but on the whole this is a tense ride that will work over your terror center.

| Sep 8, 2021

It works, just about, thanks to the energetic distress of Ms Laurent.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 20, 2021

Demonstrates [director Alexandre Aja's] great abilities as a storyteller of suspense. [Full review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jul 26, 2021

An effective and intelligent storyteller, Aja confirms that in the cinema it is not always necessary to flood the screen with characters or effects. [Full Review in Spanish]

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 22, 2021

There's no real problem solving, there's no real anxiety, and there's certainly nothing here you haven't seen elsewhere.

| Jun 6, 2021

Both the scenarios and the special effects are accomplished in this modest sci-fi flick.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Jun 5, 2021

One of Netflix's juiciest one-off thrillers.

| Original Score: B | Jun 3, 2021

All I will say is that after watching this movie you will want your passwords etched in stone.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Jun 1, 2021