2021 · crime · thriller · spy
Silk Road
Directed by Tiller Russell1h 56m2021
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.
Our read: Silk Road (2021) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded crime · thriller · spy entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, cold in temperature, nihilistic in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured crime / thriller, grounded in texture. Nihilistic, mid-stakes, cold.
- sombre
- brisk
- cold
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