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Urchin
Directed by
Harris Dickinson
Releasing Oct 3
1h 39m
Drama
,
Comedy
6.8
97%
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Mike, a homeless person in London is struggling to break free from a cycle of self-destruction while trying to turn his life around.
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Cast of Urchin
Frank Dillane
Mike
Megan Northam
Andrea
Amr Waked
Karyna Khymchuk
Shonagh Marie
Harris Dickinson
Nathan / Director / Writer / Producer
Joel Lockhart
Cleaner
Lucy Kelly
Archie Pearch
Producer
Scott O'Donnell
Producer
Urchin Reviews
Elle
Tomris Laffly
Harris Dickinson might be the most exciting new auteur since the Safdie Brothers. The future of British social realism looks promising thanks to his debut--knows his Ken Loach and Mike Leigh inside and out but doesn't carbon-copy what came before.
TIME Magazine
Stephanie Zacharek
Dickinson has a light touch and a lively imagination, as well as a sense of humor; he takes material you think might be conventional and opens new windows of thinking.
AwardsWatch
Erik Anderson
[Frank] Dillane is spectacular here, giving a performance that is spiky and electric, like Gary Oldman in the 80s and early 90s.
Loud and Clear Reviews
Hayley Croke
Urchin is a film that encapsulates both the sorrows and the joys of the human experience. [...] Dickinson bends traditional storytelling conventions to create a truly empathic, artful film.
In Review Online
Chris Cassingham
Urchin is never fully committed to the grit, marginality, or momentous pulse, respectively, of its most obvious influences.
FirstShowing.net
Alex Billington
Not only is the direction confident and the vision for this story clear, it's a damn good film featuring some clever creative choices. Delighted to report it's one of the year's best debuts.
Screen Rant
Brittany Patrice Witherspoon
Suffice it to say, Urchin isn't the easiest watching experience, but Harris Dickinson crafts a memorable, if frustrating, directorial feature debut.
Cocalecas
Ruben Peralta Rigaud
With Urchin, [Duckinson] establishes himself as an honest, courageous narrator deeply committed to showing the reality we often choose not to see. [Full review in Spanish]
The Daily Beast
Esther Zuckerman
Urchin has shades of the work of the Safdie brothers in its nervy energy, and owes something to British auteur Andrea Arnold... But it's also entirely Dickinson's own vision, which meshes the surreal and the bracingly real.
The Film Stage
Rory O'Connor
In Urchin, Dickinson blends issue-driven social realism (a British staple) with the trendier look of a Safdie film: all medium shots, real streets, non-professionals, and the occasional trip down a colorful drain.
Variety
Guy Lodge
[Frank Dillane] is revelatory in his most substantial big-screen role to date, imbuing Mike with both the kind of wily charisma that makes people want to rescue him, and a self-destructive volatility that keeps repelling such efforts.
RogerEbert.com
Isaac Feldberg
While staying close to this uneasy and vulnerable character, Dickinson follows him down the drain with ample sympathy but also a cold, invigorating clarity.
TheWrap
Chase Hutchinson
This is a full character that Dillane and Dickinson have built from the ground up, where the little details of how he reacts to things can tear right through when you least expect it.
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Dallas King
Mike needs to be told what to do by others rather than having his own independence. Unlike this character, Dickinson has total and complete independence, forging ahead to make one of the year's most confident and fantastic directorial debuts.
Discussing Film
Yasmine Kandil
Urchin avoids the common stereotypes and tropes found in stories about addiction, opting for something much more abstract and powerful. Harris Dickinson's directorial skills on display prove that his career as a filmmaker is just getting started.
Vanity Fair
Richard Lawson
With Dillane's invaluable help, Urchin paints a sad and compelling portrait of someone lost in the fringes, a victim of an often indifferent system and of the complex wiring of his brain.
Deadline Hollywood Daily
Damon Wise
Urchin doesn't offer any answers, nor does it try, but it does open up a conversation about the people who fall through the cracks.
The Hollywood Reporter
David Rooney
Urchin would be nothing without a gifted, vanity-free actor... This is fundamentally a one-person show, piloted by Frank Dillane like a reckless driver forever losing control of the wheel.
IndieWire
David Ehrlich
That steadiness is central to Dillane's magnetic performance, which always tacks closer to neediness than sociopathy, and never steers towards cheap sympathy or demonstrative rage. Mike is a troubled soul, but he's not Anton Chigurh.
Collider
Emma Kiely
Urchin is an impressive first film from writer-director Harris Dickinson that sets him on a path to be among the ranks of the best of British storytellers.
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