While it gets a little cheesy and more sic-fi toward the end, it's still fun and dramatic...

| Original Score: B+ | Aug 16, 2024

Prepare to be sucked into a vacuum of suspense, made more heart-pumping by Europa Report's preoccupation with plausibility.

| Mar 21, 2023

Cordero can’t seem to decide if he’s made a horror movie or a heady sci-fi tale, and his genre mashup feels unbalanced for it.

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 2, 2022

Filmmaker Cordero delivers a found-footage thriller that admittedly does suffer from the various problems one associates with the genre...

| Original Score: 2.5/4 | Sep 27, 2020

Embrace space exploration and the best of mankind with Europa Report.

| Nov 27, 2019

Methodical and intelligent science fiction makes Europa Report a sharp movie.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 22, 2019

The cast is superb, with Sharlto Copley, Michael Nyqvist and Anamaria Marinca delivering standout performances.

| May 23, 2018

Despite tried-and-true formula (technical failure, one-by-one pick-offs, etc.), a number of creative enhancements make for an original and appropriately-scaled film.

| Original Score: B | Jun 29, 2016

As the action progresses, this quickly becomes Marinca's film, as she uses her body language as much as the script to suggest more subtle forms of angst.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 18, 2015

One of the most immediately involving science-fiction films in recent memory.

| Original Score: B | Feb 20, 2014

In most modern science fiction, scientists are not depicted as noble. In the tradition of Frankenstein, they are often depicted as villains. This movie presents real science and scientists at their noble, courageous best.

| Original Score: B | Jan 1, 2014

An exciting but subdued sci-fi thriller about astronauts on a fouled-up mission to find out if there's life on Jupiter.

| Original Score: B+ | Dec 1, 2013

There is an earthbound integrity and deeply respectful approach to the science in Europa Report that imbues the story with a gritty intensity, lifting it beyond its B-movie framework.

| Nov 20, 2013

The best science fiction films have no chases, no guns blaring, no zombies, no prosthetic makeup, and no suspension of the laws of science. This is one of the best of recent years.

| Original Score: 8/10 | Oct 20, 2013

Its ideas trump its method, a necessity when working in a weary genre.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Oct 11, 2013

... maintains an intimacy and a slow-paced authenticity to the proceedings that helps to gradually increase the tension without sacrificing character development.

| Aug 30, 2013

Puts a premium on credibility

| Aug 30, 2013

Until things go wrong in the last quarter it's like looking at CNN.

| Aug 23, 2013

There is something refreshing in the decidedly downbeat "Europa Report," a science-fiction film with the emphasis on science that doesn't cheat on the tension.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 22, 2013

The film is resonant and largely satisfying, but in a smaller, more cerebral way than many of its genre.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Aug 21, 2013