Melanie Laurent from Quentin Tarantino’s 2009 masterpiece Inglourious Basterds sinks her teeth into her role as Elizabeth Hansen, the main character in Oxygen. But, wait. You’re not supposed to know ...

Netflix’s Oxygen (Oxygène), a French-language thriller set inside a tiny cryogenic pod, went through a handful of iterations before landing as an eerily timely take on confinement. The film, based on ...

Oxygen is a much bigger story than it seems. The new French sci-fi thriller on Netflix begins as just the tale of Liz, a woman who wakes up in a cryogenic pod with no memory and a slowly declining ...

Alexandre Aja has been infatuated by the genre of one-location cinema. The director’s latest film, “Oxygen,“ marks his deepest descent into this tingling fascination. In the likes of “Buried” with ...

Rollo Tomasi is a Connecticut-based film critic, TV show critic, news, and editorial writer. He will have a MFA in Creative Writing from Columbia University in 2026. Rollo has written over 700 film, ...

Mélanie Laurent is quite phenomenal, carrying this suspenseful thriller through her sole performance. The film opens as Laurent’s character wakes up, wrapped in a plastic sheet that she painstakingly ...

Trapped in a cryogenic chamber with oxygen levels dwindling, a woman must learn how to team up with the machine in order to escape. By Lena Wilson When you purchase a ticket for an independently ...