'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