Owen Gleiberman Chief Film CriticWhen a dramatic feature film gets made out of an investigative magazine article, there’s usually a conventional heroic hook to it (the fight against corporate malfeasance, a think-outside-of-the-box success story, and so on).
But not always. “Silk Road,” written and directed by Tiller Russell, is a fervently topical, at moments intriguing, but ultimately rather sketchy drama about the online black market that started up in 2011 as the first major capitalist enterprise on the dark web.
During the two years of its existence, Silk Road was an underground Amazon or eBay for drugs — a platform where dealers and buyers could find each other, which meant that you could order a nicely priced package of cannabis or.
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