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Danny Boyle’s Ink Commands TIFF With Electric Lead and Tabloid Origin Story

A revisit of The Sun’s 1969 relaunch that probes how circulation-first choices reshaped modern news, positioning the film for awards-season attention.

Overview

  • This week at the Toronto International Film Festival reviewers and audiences have singled out Jack O’Connell’s performance as Larry Lamb as the film’s driving force.
  • Guy Pearce says he and Boyle chose to portray a young Rupert Murdoch as an anti-establishment figure focused on entertaining readers rather than a one-dimensional villain.
  • Critics praised Boyle’s vigorous direction and the film’s role as a history lesson about tabloidization while noting a late subplot that raises moral questions for the characters.
  • Several reviews pointed to two visibly used pieces of generative AI for brief visual effects and questioned some anachronistic music choices given the film’s ethical themes.
  • Ink opened at Venice and played Telluride before TIFF and is scheduled for a limited U.S. theatrical window in December followed by Netflix streaming in January 2027 as part of a planned awards push.