Danny Boyle's "Ink," which opened the Venice Film Festival, dramatises the transformation of The Sun newspaper in 1970 under new editor Larry Lamb and its owner Rupert Murdoch, tracing how their populist overhaul of British tabloid journalism reshaped Fleet Street and, by extension, the modern media landscape. Adapted from James Graham's stage play, the film is presented as a fast-paced, morally ambiguous account of ambition and compromise, with Jack O'Connell praised as "superb" in the lead role of Lamb, a working-class Yorkshireman determined to prove himself against the old guard of British journalism.

The story follows Lamb's decision to chase sensationalism, sport, sex and human interest over the stuffier standards of rival papers, a strategy that included the controversial introduction of topless women on page three, provoking backlash from the Press Council and the Church of England. Guy Pearce plays Murdoch with "oily finesse", while Claire Foy portrays journalist Joyce Hopkirk, Lamb's mistress and the paper's most senior female staffer, who secures more editorial control over the women's pages despite reservations about the new direction. The review notes the drama escalates when the wife of Murdoch's deputy is kidnapped by opportunistic criminals, exposing the human cost of Lamb's reckless pursuit of stories.