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

Absolutely pulpy, but gripping and well-done...

| May 24, 2021

"Oxygen" takes us on a thrilling voyage and lands at an unexpected destination.

| Original Score: 3/4 | May 20, 2021

What Oxygen's really about doesn't pack enough of a punch, but it is an especially well shot contained thriller with a phenomenal lead performance from Mélanie Laurent.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 19, 2021

There's a twist midway that only the most naive viewer will not see coming (we know exactly where she is, from the opening frame), but it's good wholesome fun, and Laurent certainly brings conviction to an otherwise paper-thin role.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 17, 2021

Decent tech specs, including some nifty shots from veteran horror cinematographer Maxime Alexandre, offset the slightly cobbled-together feel.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 15, 2021

A neat little sci-fi nightmare; a cool-toned exercise in claustrophobia that nearly pulls off the innate improbabilities of its high-concept nonsense.

| Original Score: B | May 14, 2021

The excellent Mélanie Laurent sells it hard, and it's a rather elegant contrivance, more restrained than usual from this director, the shlock-horror specialist Alexandre Aja.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 13, 2021

Aja knows what sort of product he is turning out and does it ably, if without much excitement, as though understanding he is filling a hole in a lineup.

| May 13, 2021

A modest, taut nailbiter. It lets itself down in the final third, but for the most part Oxygen leaves you gasping for air. And Mélanie Laurent, in practically every frame, is terrific.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 13, 2021

Aja maintains tension throughout, using horror conventions - and a few cheap jump scares - to routinely shock the audience back to attention.

| May 12, 2021

Alas, "Oxygen" is too busy gasping for itself to embrace the Socratic method, and so there's precious little payoff to the answers that it gradually teases out from MILO.

| Original Score: C | May 12, 2021

Oxygen doesn't do anything new with its familiar setup, but Aja brings taut, propulsive energy matched by his talented lead.

| Original Score: 3/5 | May 12, 2021

With robust direction in an incredibly confined space and Laurent's phenomenal work, Oxygen should feel like a breath of fresh air for people looking for something to watch on Netflix.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | May 12, 2021

As one might expect, much of the responsibility for keeping Oxygen compelling rests on Laurent, who runs through all the stages of grief, from denial to acceptance, as she thrashes against her high-tech prison.

| Original Score: B- | May 11, 2021

Oxygen won't quite leave you breathless, but it should leave you thinking -- and surprised. For this sort of movie, that's perhaps the most precious fuel of all.

| May 11, 2021

A locked-in-a-box conceptual thriller that more or less succeeds almost entirely due to Mélanie Laurent's resourceful performance as a woman who has no idea why she's become trapped in a tiny cryogenic pod.

| May 10, 2021

Executed the way Aja approaches it, the plot holes become apparent. Some are big enough to push an asteroid through. But it's an intriguing journey all the same...

| May 7, 2021

Laurent is terrific, deserving of top billing even were she not the only actor in sight.

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

A tight exercise in breathless unease.

| May 3, 2021