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Silk Road Review: Intriguing but Undercooked Drama About the Dark-Web Drug Site
Nick Robinson plays Ross Ulbricht, who thought selling illegal narcotics on the Internet made him a crusader.
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Director: Tiller Russell
With: Nick Robinson, Jason Clarke, Katie Aselton, Alexandra Shipp, Jimmi Simpson, Paul Walter Hauser, Daniel David Stewart, Darrell Britt-Gibson, Lex Rabe, Will Ropp.
When a dramatic feature film gets made out of an investigative magazine article, there’s usually some conventional heroic hook to it (the fight against corporate malfeasance, a think-different athlete or artist). But not always. “Silk Road,” written and directed by Tiller Russell, is
Movie Review: Silk Road Gives a Look into the Dark Web and Cryptos
The film is based on “Dead End on Silk Road,” a magazine article from Rolling Stone in 2014.
Ross Ulbricht was the founder of Silk Road, the notorious “dark web” marketplace, prior to his arrest in 2013. Convicted of crimes that included money laundering, computer hacking and conspiracy to traffic fraudulent identity documents, Ulbricht has been sentenced to decades in prison. He was also accused by prosecutors of murder-for-hire, but never convicted on any of those charges, giving him an unusually long sentence for someone not convicted of anything violent.