Endurance

It’s better to let us imagine what we can’t see. But what we do see in “Endurance” is quietly staggering.

While the 2022 expedition doesn’t match the nail-biting life-or-death stakes of the original venture, it’s compellingly captured through the eyes of a likable cast of eccentric world experts.

It’s a film that exploration boffins will cherish most, but there’s plenty of grizzled male hardship here to engage fans of The Terror or The North Water. Unlike in those, you’re assured of at least one happy ending, too.

Here is a frustrating film that tries to tell two stories at once, and succeeds with neither.