Europa Report Reviews
Film Racket
I've never been so engrossed in frank conversations involving landing zones, ice drilling, or hydrazine.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Cinemalogue.com
... maintains an intimacy and a slow-paced authenticity to the proceedings that helps to gradually increase the tension without sacrificing character development.
East Bay Express
Until things go wrong in the last quarter it's like looking at CNN.
Top CriticThere 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.
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| Original Score: 4/5
About.com
The film is resonant and largely satisfying, but in a smaller, more cerebral way than many of its genre.
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| Original Score: 4/5
Low key and earnest, Sebastián Cordero's "Europa Report" makes compelling use of familiar genre material to create an intelligent science fiction thriller.
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| Original Score: 3/4
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Like many other dull road trips, your response to this one might be a quick nap.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Film Freak Central
If it had a torso, it'd be wearing a pocket protector.
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| Original Score: 2/4
Shockya.com
A solidly cast, interesting budget concept is absolutely wrecked by terrible editing and needless voiceover that is at first wearying and then just ire-provoking.
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| Original Score: C-
Spirituality and Practice
A suspenseful drama proving that outer space is a very mysterious and a very dangerous place.
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| Original Score: 4/5
There are scenes of unutterable beauty in Europa Report, a low-budget space exploration sci-fi suspenser from Ecuadorian director Sebastián Cordero.
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| Original Score: 3/4
Boston Herald
A small, brilliantly cast sci-fi gem, a riveting piece of minimalist work.
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| Original Score: A minus
What isn't straightforward about the plot is either hackneyed, implausible, or both.
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| Original Score: 2.5/4
The idea that life evolved independently on Europa is perfectly plausible-and that makes what would be a fun and exciting film in any case all the more worth watching.
I'm not qualified to judge the accuracy of the scientific detail, though the filmmakers convey a genuine respect for hard science instead of the cursory interest shown by most science fiction movies.
If this isn't quite a great movie, it should be an immensely gratifying one for sci-fi fans tired of the conceptual overkill and general dumbness of "Prometheus" or "Star Trek Into Darkness."
Paste Magazine
With echoes of 2001, Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece, Europa Report is riveting low-budget hard science fiction -- i.e., emphasizing the science rather than the speculative.
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| Original Score: 9/10
tonymacklin.net
The strength of the film is not the story or the characters. It is the style that is remarkable.
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| Original Score: 3.0/5
Movies.com
If you want some actual science in your science fiction, though, the only 2013 movie (so far; Gravity is still coming) that delivers is Europa Report. And oh how it does deliver.
