2021 · thriller · sci-fi · survival
Oxygen
Directed by Alexandre Aja1h 40m2021
A woman wakes in a cryogenic chamber with no recollection of how she got there, and must find a way out before running out of air.
Our read: Oxygen (2021) reads as a sombre, kinetic, inventive thriller · sci-fi · survival entry — extreme in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, extreme thriller / sci-fi, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
- sombre
- brisk
- extreme
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