A tense, minimalist space thriller that builds dread through isolation, patience, and the terrifying possibility of never ...

A decade ago, audiences were treated to an adventure into the far reaches of our solar system. Six astronauts board a state of the art spacecraft on an exploratory mission to Jupiter’s moon Europa, in ...

Most science-fiction thrillers favor fiction over science, but the faux-documentary “Europa Report” does its best to stay true to the sci in sci-fi. First conceptualized in 2009, the film takes its ...

From “The Blair Witch Project” to the “Paranormal Activity” franchise, the found-footage theme has been wildly successful and widely replicated in horror films. Director Sebastian Cordero puts a smart ...

At a time when most “science fiction” movies tend to sacrifice science for fiction in the pursuit of mainstream appeal, Europa Report offers a welcome reminder that a great sci-fi story need not ...

Deep space thrillers tend to sidestep logic in favor of nightmarish dread. Last year’s summer hit “Prometheus” featured an impossible near future in which travel to extrasolar planets was an easily ...

“Europa Report” gets off to a strong start, inhabiting the glory and growing unease of exploring the unseen and unknown. It then dissolves into a simplistic thriller, jettisoning a great deal of the ...

This found-footage tale of astronauts searching for signs of life near Jupiter is a reasonably plausible and impressively controlled achievement. Set in a post-NASA future when space travel has become ...

At the end of 2015, Congress gave NASA a big directive: develop a spacecraft that can land on Jupiter’s moon Europa — an icy world that is thought to harbor a saltwater ocean underneath its surface.

“Europa Report” is a Grade A version of a B picture, a streamlined science fiction story that smartly tells a familiar tale without breaking the bank. Though modern moviemaking often mandates that ...