‘Ink’ Review: Danny Boyle’s Rupert Murdoch Pressure Cooker Is a Journalism Thriller Tabloid-Ready for Our Political Apocalypse
Venice: Jack O’Connell plays Larry Lamb opposite Guy Pearce’s Murdoch in a stirringly acted but stylistically overcooked rumination on our clickbait-addled world.
That “Ink” begins as a story of Larry Lamb and Rupert Murdoch launching the tabloid newspaper The Sun in 1969 and ends with a montage including Trump and Elon Musk tells you all you need to know about Danny Boyle’s new film: This is a vividly directed if overcooked political parable about How We Got Here Now. If you’ve seen “Nightcrawler” or “Network,” there’s nothing new to take away about the if-it-bleeds-it-leads newsroom mentality, but Jack O’Connell (who also starred in Boyle’s “28 Years Later”) is terrific as an editor obsessively addicted to winning — and willing to mow down lives in the process.
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