Mike’s desperation exists within a respectable world. While working people in London head to their jobs or appointments, Mike (Frank Dillane) begs for change and looks for a restaurant where he can rest or charge his phone. In Urchin, writer and director Harris Dickinson follows this unhoused man with an addiction problem through several cycles of normalcy and despair. The approach is similar to Naked, Mike Leigh’s 1993 drama that follows another unhoused man through less savory parts of London. But while the hero of Naked was guided by uncompromising intelligence and deep resentment, Mike is too deep in the throes of raw need. Dickinson, best known as a handsome actor in films like Triangle of Sadness and Babygirl, refuses to depict Mike’s life with any relief, unless you count a series o

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