Charli XCX – ALLIANCE OF WOMEN FILM JOURNALISTS

ERUPCJA – Review by Sarah Ward

April 10, 2026April 11, 2026 Sarah Ward Agata Trzebuchowska, Charli XCX, Erupcja, Jeremy O. Harris, Lena Góra, Pete Ohs, Will Madden

Brat summer came and went in 2024 in a wash of lime green and internet memes. Ever since, it has been cinema season for Charli xcx. The British singer and songwriter’s eruption across the big screen is no mere coincidence, acting in no less than seven films (Erupcja, 100 Nights of Hero, Sacrifice, The Moment, I Want Your Sex, The Gallerist and Faces of Death), and also helping to craft two of them as a writer and producer. (And then there’s her Wuthering Heights soundtrack album.) Such cinematic omnipresence sways with a tingle of fate, like forces colliding and conspiring to give xcx her celluloid moment. Erupcja even ponders how clinging onto patterns can feel exactly that way, and feel magical. Unlike in The Moment, she isn’t satirically stepping into her own shoes in this Warsaw-set romantic drama, but where Erupcja’s biggest name is concerned, it still offers commentary about her current career: that this is where xcx is meant to be right now.

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100 NIGHTS OF HERO – Review by Lynn Venhaus

December 5, 2025December 8, 2025 Lynn Venhaus 100 Nights of Hero, Amir El-Masry, Charli XCX, felicity jones, Isabel Greenberg, Julia Jackman, maika monroe, Nicholas Galitzine, Richard E. Grant, Sofia Sacomani, Susie Coulthard

A fantasy feminist fable that relies more on style than substance, 100 Nights of Hero is pretty – in people and surroundings – but at times, the story feels too flimsy to be an innovative take on elevating sisterhood over the pompous patriarchy. As a unifying anthem, the film waited too long to make a bold statement– and while motivation is always welcome, why dilly-dally instead of starting the rallying cry early? Nevertheless, give credit for showing that women can conjure their own happily ever after for themselves.

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SACRIFICE – Review by Shadan Larki

September 11, 2025January 14, 2026 Shadan Larki anya taylor joy, Charli XCX, Chris Evans, Romain Gavras, sacrifice, Salma Hayek Pinault, Vincent Cassel

Sacrifice opens with an environmental charity gala in Greece that assembles a group of A-list guests. You’ve got the action star (Chris Evans), the Jeff Bezos-inspired billionaire (Vincent Cassel), the pop icon (Salma Hayek Pinault, fabulously channeling Madonna), and the fun-loving Charli xcx-type pop star (Charli xcx herself, in a fun cameo). Everyone comes in with an agenda, fight climate change, naturally, and use the camera-laden event to shift the media narrative that surrounds their celebrity status. Anya Taylor-Joy’s Joan and her cultish group of friends take the gala hostage with an agenda of their own—take three of these attendees to be sacrificed to a near-by volcano on the cusp of erupting, doing so will prevent the end of the world.

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PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN: Susan Jacob’s Female Power Soundtrack – Rachel West comments

December 30, 2020January 2, 2021 Rachel West Britney Spears, Carey Mulligan, Charli XCX, emerald fennell, Juice Newton, promising young woman, Susan Jacobs, Weather Girls

Emerald Fennell’s bold Promising Young Woman isn’t just a triumph for star Carey Mulligan, it’s a soundtrack showcase for female-driven power-pop. Spanning the gamut of Mulligan’s Cassie’s emotions, the Promising Young Woman soundtrack is equal parts dark, edgy female rage and catchy, lighthearted pop. Throughout the film, music supervisor Susan Jacobs allows Cassie’s state of mind to manifest in the music from the movie’s first few minutes until its ultimate conclusion.