Production Budget Analysis

The production budget for Black Crab (2022) has not been publicly disclosed.

CAST: Noomi Rapace, Jakob Oftebro, Dar Salim, Erik Enge, Ardalan Esmaili, Aliette Opheim DIRECTOR: Adam Berg CINEMATOGRAPHY: Jonas Alarik PRODUCTION: Indio Film

Box Office Performance

Theatrical box office data is not publicly available for Black Crab (2022). This may indicate a limited release, direct-to-streaming, or a release predating modern box office tracking.

Profitability Assessment

Insufficient publicly available data to assess profitability.

INDUSTRY IMPACT

AWARDS & RECOGNITION

Summary: 3 wins & 1 nomination total

CRITICAL RECEPTION

The critics' consensus reads: "Black Crab can be exciting in the moment, but its bleak and derivative story add up to a fairly forgettable viewing experience." Charles Bramesco, for The Guardian, wrote that "in narrowing focus to the plight of speed skater Caroline Edh (Noomi Rapace), director Adam Berg and his co-writers (Jerker Virdborg, author of the source novel, and Pelle Rådström) give themselves enough room to wriggle out of the most difficult questions their premise poses. [...] Thin ice has rules and terrors all its own, however, maximized through Berg’s suspense-forward direction. [...] A pacifist parable taking a brave stand against nothing, totally removed from the sociocultural landscape of today’s Sweden, it sounds out like one of Caroline’s screams into the howling Scandinavian wind – impassioned, futile, heard by no one".

Matt Fowler, for IGN, highlighted that "Black Crab displays many of the lovely tropes associated with a ragtag quest story, including the systematic elimination of players on the board, with each victim falling as the film highlights the various hazards and obstacles in their way across the enemy-occupied ice. [...] Black Crab has all the ingredients to grab you and take you on a thrill ride – and at times it achieves this – but it suffers partial collapse by the end because of its need to land a little loftier than necessary. Noomi Rapace is powerful throughout, as a desperate soldier skating for her family, and the camera work out on the desolate, ominous expanses of ice is often gorgeous, but the film never lets us in on what's actually going on in the world and that lessens the impact of the final act".