Silk Road plays more like a run-of-the-mill thriller than anything else.

| Original Score: C | Apr 26, 2024

Suffice it to say, it may not shock or fascinate like a documentary would've been able to, yet it manages to remain grounded, believable and engaging for the entire two hour run-time.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Aug 6, 2023

The film wants us to see a complicated world filled with bad actors with some good tendencies but none of these characters are interesting enough to justify whatever thematic commentary is provided.

| Original Score: 5/10 | Jun 8, 2022

...nothing but a bad trip.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Apr 23, 2021

A somewhat more cerebral thriller.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 2, 2021

Writer-director Tiller Russell resists moralising for the most part, breezing through a range of political issues, ethical dilemmas and interpersonal dramas. So even if it's fairly bog-standard stuff, it's entertaining.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Apr 1, 2021

A passable cybercrime thriller...kind of manages to be interesting, though the invented stuff feels VERY invented...

| Mar 30, 2021

Silk Road has solid performances from most of the cast members, but also too many eye-rolling moments of melodrama that were obviously fabricated for the movie. The movie gets a lot of elements wrong in how the DEA investigated this case.

| Mar 30, 2021

Silk Road presents too many ingredients without enough finesse. But, even if they're not mixed together well enough ... [it] gives enough to perhaps sample its wares.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 24, 2021

But Russell's stilted dialogue and overly preachy tone has a habit of slamming on the brakes, resulting in a film that suffers from numerous frustrating interruptions.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 24, 2021

For a film that's based on a gripping real life crime, Silk Road should be a far more engaging and shocking affair.

| Original Score: 2.5/5 | Mar 22, 2021

Robinson gives a suitably nervy and understated performance as the anti-hero you wish you could root for.

| Mar 18, 2021

The Ulbricht story is a dynamite premise scrambled to bits by "Silk Road" with too much wasted talent.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 17, 2021

The game of cat-and-mouse is diverting enough...

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 17, 2021

Sadly, while the film gives us the broad strokes of Ulrich's story, it lacks the granular detail that could have turned this into a Miami Vice-style spin on The Social Network.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 17, 2021

Perhaps millennials have taken the excitement out of organised crime. You won't find much in this movie.

| Original Score: 2/5 | Mar 16, 2021

Cybercrime is hard to make sexy but Silk Road manages to fashion a largely gripping story, even if it fails to deliver a weighty or insightful look at the crook at its heart.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 15, 2021

Above average movie about the Dark Web. Jason Clarke excels in his performance as usual.

| Original Score: 6/10 | Mar 7, 2021

Drama about dark-web marketplace has drugs, language.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Mar 4, 2021

Got the right story but the wrong filmmaker to do it.

| Original Score: C+ | Mar 4, 2021