Sundance 2026 Review: THE MOMENT, Surface-Deep Charlie XCX Mockumentary

Brat collapse mockumentary The Moment heralds the death of cool—and Charli xcx

Charli xcx plays a stylized version of herself in The Moment // Courtesy of A24 To be a Charli xcx fan is to always question if she’s being serious or not.  In the late 2010s to early 2020s, she was penning lyrics like “aeroplane, you are so fly,” autographing douches at meet and greets, and publicly forgetting for whom, exactly, she writes her music. Okay, she’s taking the piss.  In 2022, she released Crash, an unexpected embrace of mainstream …

On the Big Screen This Week: Charli XCX Makes a Mockumentary and Ronald Reagan Gets Punched in the Face

Pretty much all the movies you can catch in the Twin Cities this week.

Sundance 2026 Review: THE MOMENT, Surface-Deep Charlie XCX Mockumentary

Charli XCX’s meteoric rise as a mega-pop-star has been anything but meteoric.   It’s been a slow, upward descent, from posting videos on a long-defunct social-media platform, MySpace, in 2008 at the age of sixteen, to signing with a record label two years later, followed by mixtapes, collabs, and ultimately, a series of albums, each one bigger than the last, culminating with the 14-track album, “brat,” two years ago and the subsequent social med…

Charli xcx Tells Us How She’s Feeling Now: “So Tired, To Be Honest”

Even party girls need a break sometimes — just ask Charli xcx. Over the last two weeks, the pop star rubbed shoulders with Utah’s finest at Sundance, where she attended the premiere of her mockumentary The Moment and Cathy Yan’s latest film The Gallerist, walked the red carpet at the Wuthering Heights premiere, and presented Lola Young her award for Best Pop Solo Performance at the 68th Annual Grammy Awards. When we speak, she had just deplaned …