“Tony” is Yet Another Good Biopic
The problem isn’t that it’s bad. It's good. But it fails to stand out from a crowd of similar films.

Partly driven by curiosity, partly frozen in shock, a crowd of onlookers gathers around a car accident. Unable and, in some cases, unwilling to intervene, the audience ignores the imminent danger above them, which threatens to bury them all beneath it.
The problem isn’t that it’s bad. It's good. But it fails to stand out from a crowd of similar films.
I came across Urchin by chance and decided to watch it because of the title. It made me think of the spiky animal that lives at the bottom of the ocean, and the old Dickensian novels, where an urchin was an orphaned, homeless child in shaggy and dirty clothes.
Another uneven "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" redux that says nothing novel about its subject matter.
We are constantly being pushed to move on from mishaps and negative feelings. What happens if we're not ready to do so?
One of THE most frustrating trends in the mainstream film industry over the last several decades has been the onset of comedy efforts that seem SO focused on being crude and/or gross-out in all ways possible. That, at least for me, makes them no longer funny.