Quartile rating: 6/10 · 1 rating
When the young founder of a collapsing cryptocurrency exchange dies unexpectedly, irate investors suspect there's more to his death than meets the eye.
This Netflix documentary covers the bizarre QuadrigaCX scandal with reasonable pacing and intrigue, benefiting from a genuinely strange true story about Gerald Cotten and the missing crypto fortune. The narrative structure keeps viewers engaged through its conspiracy-layered unfolding, though the talking-head format is fairly conventional for the genre. Cinematography is standard documentary fare with no distinctive visual approach. Novelty is modest — the crypto angle gives it some timeliness and the story itself is singular, but the documentary execution follows familiar true-crime templates. The ending is somewhat satisfying given the unresolved real-world mystery, landing on appropriately ambiguous conclusions without feeling cheap.