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8. Europa Report

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Magnolia Pictures

This ultra-low budget (est. $23,000) space-missioner has hints of Moon and Gravity about it, and also counts a few choice actors (Michael Nyqvist of the original The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo series and Isiah 'Clay Davis' Whitlock Jr. to name two) among its crew of astronauts searching for life on one of Jupiter's gargantuan moons.

There's a found-footage vibe to Europa Report, and though that particular sub-genre has been done to death in recent years, the low-budget aesthetic and small cast of characters fit well into the mode, and Report is a genuinely suspenseful, albeit slow-burning sci-fi thriller.

Naturally, there are nods to 2001 and Alien (among others), but the film generally feels fresh and alive, with a nice element of some actual science going on as well. It marks one of the better sci-fi efforts of recent years, receiving mostly favourable reviews from critics and scientists alike.

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No-one I think is in my tree, I mean it must be high or low?