Some filmmaker debuts come at you with great guns blazing; first-timers often like to pour everything they’ve got into a project, believing that overstatement is the surest way to grab attention. But Urchin, the debut film from Harris Dickinson —the not-yet-30 English actor who has given terrific, beguiling performances in movies like Eliza Hittman’s Brooklyn teen drama Beach Rats and Halina Reijn’s feverish sex fantasy Babygirl —arrives with a whisper, not a shout. A seemingly straightforward story about an addict barely holding his life together on the streets of London, Urchin is effective because of all the things it doesn’t do: there are no grand revelations, no horrific bottoming-out or OD moments. We’re simply left alone with an addict and his feelings—or, occasionally

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