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11 reviews · Provided by Metacritic.com
- 75RogerEbert.comGlenn KennyRogerEbert.comGlenn KennyThe gloom is practically enveloping. But, in the end, is it really all about hope? Black Crab is more than sufficiently gripping to make you want to see it through and find out.
- 70Screen RantNadir SamaraScreen RantNadir SamaraBlack Crab is a little long, but the movie is too cool to notice.
- 69Paste MagazineAndrew CrumpPaste MagazineAndrew CrumpIn her recent roles, like Lamb and the imminent You Will Not Be Alone, Rapace has expressed boundless terror and awe in the pursuit of existential questions about being human. In Black Crab, she reminds us with steely resolve that she’s incredibly capable at performing toughness, too.
- 60IGNMatt FowlerIGNMatt FowlerBlack 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.
- There’s a vague moral here that it’s better to die than be in service to corrupt methods of governance, but “Black Crab” doesn’t do enough world-building for that point to feel adequate. If only Berg had some of Joon-ho’s signature class-oriented relish, this frigid journey might be more worthwhile.
- 56PolygonOli WelshPolygonOli WelshIn the strange and threatening moment it conjures up, Black Crab works quite well. The economical bursts of action are mapped out with clarity and bitten off with curt precision. The quest is simple and the threats are tangible. When Berg and his co-writer Pelle Rådström reach for something more, however, they just close their hands on air. Empty clichés abound.
- 50SlashfilmChris EvangelistaSlashfilmChris EvangelistaThose craving some gloomy, unforgiving post-apocalyptic drama might get a kick out of what's on display here. Everyone else might want to scurry away. You know, like a crab in the dark.
- 50Movie NationRoger MooreMovie NationRoger MooreNoomi is good, the supporting “types” perfectly serviceable, the look — that killer image of combat team skating into the darkness from their base as it is being bombed to bits — arresting. But that ending? It’s a bust.
- 40The GuardianCharles BramescoThe GuardianCharles BramescoA 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.