Europa Report

 At some point in the near future, a company sends out six people on a manned mission to one of Jupiter's moons to look for life under its thick icy crust. Six months, less than a third of the way to their destination, there's a huge solar storm, and comms are lost completely.
 Some time later, the Europa corporation puts together and releases the Europa Report, a documentary about the fate of the expedition. And that's what we're watching.

 This is a film that strongly commits to its bit, and it nails the tone, music, visuals, and the format (talking heads, split screens, aspect ratio changes) down to the smallest detail. Coupled with a hard sci-fi edge and a mostly unsentimental approach to its story, it all makes for pretty compelling viewing; unfortunately it relies on a puzzle box structure to cover up that not a lot happens during the movie. There are a lot of incidents, but the plot itself is a bit too simple and ultimately a little unsatisfying.

 Being cobbled together from camera footage from all around the ship and inside the crew's helmets, it fully qualifies as found footage movie. One of the least contrived ones I've seen; All the cameras make sense in-universe, not a single asshat waving a camcorder to be seen.
 The editing jumbles up the timeline to give a little more drama to the proceeds, which is OK because the story itself is pretty straightforward and consciously unmelodramatic - don't expect anyone to, I dunno, start worshipping the sun and killing off crewmates. Everything is kept low-key and people remain reasonable to the end. Literally.

 Yes, it's clear from the beginning that things do not go well; the script (by Philip Gelatt) pulls some tricks to make it hard to gauge exactly how not well, but it's clear that at least a few people won't make it back. First with the permanent loss of communications, then an accidental death that leaves the team understandably shook and demoralized (the details are left until late in the movie) and finally with a series of technical issues once they finally reach their destination and everyone takes a lander down to the frigid moon's surface.

 Once there they run into some anomalies which lead to the film's more out-there element. It's well handled and kept pretty mysterious.

 The crew consists of the captain (Daniel Wu), the pilot (Anamaria Marinca), a techie (Michael Nyqvist) and a few science people (Christian Camargo, Karolina Wydra and Sharlto Copley; remember when he was in every other movie?). They're not particularly detailed, but they're all likeable people played by pros. And the script and the actors work together to give them a lot of implied history with just a few details - a phrase in Russian, a knowing stare...
 As mentioned throughout, all the technical aspects are excellent; the cinematography (by Enrique Chediak) and environmental designs are excellent, and it's expertly directed by Ecuadorian Sebastián Cordero. It's a shame the movie never coalesces and feels a little hollow, a bit less than the sum of its parts. But most of those parts are so good, dammit.

 *: While I'm here, I should also point out that there was a plot hole near the end that brought the movie down a peg or two for me - namely that [SPOILERS!] they fixed the comms by cannibalizing life support on the lander? In ten minutes? Why didn't they do that earlier? Less of a problem, but still funny, is that the person who first bites it is the one who talks all the time about his family. Might as well have called him Dead Meat.