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Silk Road

Silk Road

Crime · Thriller · 2021

Philosophical twenty-something Ross Ulbricht creates Silk Road, a dark net website that sells drugs, while DEA agent Rick Bowden goes undercover to bring him down.

Movie details

Silk Road

“A mastermind is a terrible thing to waste.”

2021 Crime · Thriller 1h 56m

Critical arithmetic

The consensus, allegedly.

IMDb

6.0 / 10

7.2K votes

Rotten Tomatoes

50 %

Tomatometer

Metacritic

41 / 100

Metascore

TMDB

6.2 / 10

Community rating

External scores via OMDb · CC BY-NC 4.0. Values normalized for display; availability varies by title.

Philosophical twenty-something Ross Ulbricht creates Silk Road, a dark net website that sells drugs, while DEA agent Rick Bowden goes undercover to bring him down.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.

The archetype split

Who fights over Silk Road?

The split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.

Taste neighbourhood

Nearby on the taste map.

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Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Tiller Russell

Written by

Tiller Russell

Jason Clarke

Jason Clarke

Rick Bowden

Nick Robinson

Nick Robinson

Ross Ulbricht

Daniel David Stewart

Daniel David Stewart

Max

Alexandra Shipp

Alexandra Shipp

Julia

Paul Walter Hauser

Paul Walter Hauser

Curtis Clark Green

Jimmi Simpson

Jimmi Simpson

Chris Tarbell

Lexi Rabe

Lexi Rabe

Edie

Court is in session

Put Silk Road on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Big-Idea Head

“Restraint trusts the audience.”

It leaves emotional space unlabelled, trusting viewers to notice what the characters cannot say aloud.

The prosecution The Sentimental Softie

“Distance mistaken for discipline.”

The chill may look elegant, but withholding a heartbeat is not the same as having complicated feelings.