Urchin

Name: Urchin
Genre: Drama
Released: October 10, 2025
Duration: 99 min
Rating: 77

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1-2 Special | Release Date: October 10, 2025

Summary: Mike (Frank Dillane), a homeless person in London, struggles to break free from a cycle of self-destruction and turn his life around.

Genre(s): Drama

Runtime: 99 min

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The Daily Beast Esther Zuckerman

May 19, 2025

While you ponder the tragedy of what you just witnessed, you are left stunned by how talented Dickinson and Dillane are. It’s the kind of work that makes you excited to see what they do next. Read full review

IndieWire David Ehrlich

May 19, 2025

Dickinson clearly hopes this story will make it that much harder for people to dehumanize the homeless population, but the power of his film — and the promise of his intelligence as a filmmaker — is that it recognizes how a portrait of mottled ambivalence might better accomplish that goal than a million cheap sops of empathy. Read full review

David Rooney

May 19, 2025

Urchin would be nothing without a gifted, vanity-free actor (the lead is the son of Stephen Dillane) who has clearly dug deep into the milieu of addiction and homelessness and is willing to go anywhere the script takes his character — from rapturous highs to desperate lows and all their consequent indignities. Read full review

Guy Lodge

May 19, 2025

The film makes no claims to represent an entire disenfranchised demographic, but there’s resonant human texture and political feeling in its close-up individual portrait. Read full review

Glenn Whipp

Oct 9, 2025

Dickinson’s first feature is so assured in every other regard that you can give him a pass for these interludes. Urchin establishes him as a filmmaker to watch: a storyteller willing to look at a thorny subject and admit that there are no easy answers. Read full review

Odie Henderson

Oct 16, 2025

Dillane is onscreen for the entire film, and he gives a performance that will stick with you long after the symbolism-laced last scene. Read full review

The Playlist Rafaela Sales Ross

May 19, 2025

Urchin puts forward a sensitive, promising director. And an even more promising writer. Read full review

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